Salman Rushdie Quotes
The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
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Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
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Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
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Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
