Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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I want to try everything.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society.
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My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.
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The book of Revelation is a book of worship that summons us to recognize the awesome majesty of our Lord.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
