Salman Rushdie Quotes
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
Salman Rushdie
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
Francesca Annis
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
Sammy Hagar
Van Halen
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
Ralph Brown
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
Nat King Cole
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson
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Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
Ian Mckellen
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
Rachel Keller
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
Jack Quaid
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
Ignatius of Antioch
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If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.
Rafael Cruz
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
Carine Roitfeld
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
Jesse Jackson
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We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.
Pope Francis
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Every actor starts out saying, 'I can play anything in the world: I'm only 25, but I can be a man 70 years old. I'll put on a gray wig and do it.' But nobody hires you for that. You have to play yourself on the screen.
Peter Graves
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Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded--never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.
Anne Cassidy
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
Salman Rushdie
