Salman Rushdie Quotes
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
Kary Mullis -
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge -
Let us have peace.
Ulysses S. Grant -
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks -
Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
Kate Beckinsale -
I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
Tatiana Maslany
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo -
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Jack Welch -
When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
Barry Jenkins -
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore -
My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
Natasha Leggero
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
Jack Schwartz -
I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
Natalie Zea -
I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
Manolo Blahnik -
There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
P. J. Harvey -
When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.
Harmon Killebrew -
I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
Sam Shepard
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I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.
Ariana Grande -
Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.
La'Porsha Renae -
The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.
Lauren Ambrose -
The chaperone's job is to make sure no one else has any fun. But nobody chaperones the chaperone. That's why I'm so right for this job.
Jane Russell -
During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.
Johan Rockstrom -
Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
Salman Rushdie