Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
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Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.
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I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
