Salman Rushdie Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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I still have a young attitude.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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I cherish all the time I spent with SM and wish the best for the company.
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My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways.
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We should like to see this Assembly shake itself out of complacency and move forward. We should like to see the committees begin their work and not stop at the first confrontation. Imperialism wishes to convert this meeting into a pointless oratorical tournament, instead of solving the grave problems of the world. We must prevent their doing so.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
