Salman Rushdie Quotes
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
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I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.
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I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.
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How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I was scared. I mean, it was scary. But part of that's because it was so personal and real to me.
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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
