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'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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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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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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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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The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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I was aware that I was the first person of all time getting to direct a Wonder Woman film, and that was taken very seriously.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
