Salman Rushdie Quotes
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
Quotes to Explore
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I am a very selfish person.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.
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In a world of iPads and emails, nothing has really changed in the theatre. You still get in an hour early, do your wardrobe, put an old pair of tights under your wig, and you have, 'This is your call, Miss Jensen'. I got exhilarated by that.
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I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.
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Everything lives and perishes through magnetism; one thing affects another one, even at great distances, and its "congenitals" may be influenced to health and disease by the power of this sympathy, at any time, and notwithstanding the intervening space.
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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
