Salman Rushdie Quotes
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I love books.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
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As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.
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Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.
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Physical attributes can make you appealing, but to keep the appeal going, one has to draw from within. You have to be a real person. Your fans and the people you associate with have to be able to see beyond your looks. You have to be a good friend, dutiful son and a good family man.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
