Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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I love improvising.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
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It's not the average people that come to my show.
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'Black with hate,' said Becca. 'You are gathering your people with hate.''Can you imagine conducting a war with love?' asked Ta-Kumsaw.'That’s a reason to refuse to make war at all,' she said gently.
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I went to theater school at Northwestern, and I was quite conservative. Reagan at the time seemed quite revolutionary, or at least a rock star: He was radical and kind of punk rock.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
