Salman Rushdie Quotes
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By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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I'm the type of girl who's always had to buy jeans in three sizes because I never know what my body is going to do from one day to the next.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
