Salman Rushdie Quotes
The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
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If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.
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I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it.
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I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
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I'm pretty sure when I need a comma; I'm not so sure about a semicolon.
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Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
