Salman Rushdie Quotes
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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I'm not graceful.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
