Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
