Salman Rushdie Quotes
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
Salman Rushdie
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
Ike Barinholtz
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Saadi
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
Hannah Simone
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
Idris Elba
I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
Laura Hillenbrand
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett
I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.
Kevin Nealon
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
Maeve Binchy
It's easy to work with someone who shares your same work ethic, who likes to create like you do.
Ozuna
Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
Umberto Eco
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
Salman Rushdie