Salman Rushdie Quotes
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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I am healthy and happy.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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Playing two people is definitely difficult, but it's made possible by everyone around me, and it's a big team effort.
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I always try and find a place for Guy Pearce. The great thing about him is he's so versatile, and I wouldn't work with an actor that much if it weren't for the fact that he had so much versatility.
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To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
