Salman Rushdie Quotes

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

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• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

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• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

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• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

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• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

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• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

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• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

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• I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.

  

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• Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

  

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• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  

  Fay Wray
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• Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

  

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• In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

  

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• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

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• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

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• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

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• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  

  Larry Bird
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• The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

  

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• Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

  

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• When I was growing up, I was watching Steffi... she taught me, actually, that I'm on a good way and try to believe in myself.

  

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• I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

  

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• I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

  

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• There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.

  

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• Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Chinese