Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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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.
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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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I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.
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I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone.
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In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.
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Meantime I say to both sides of industry, 'Please don't support us with general expressions of good will and kind words, and then undermine us through unjustified wage increases or price increases. Either back us or sack us.'
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
