Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
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Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.
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Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.
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I'm just trying to get an exposure and make my day.
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Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.
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I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
