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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I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
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The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
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I thought it'd be interesting to play an off-centre character who doesn't have to be pretty.
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For us, all we care about is maintaining what we do as a band.
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To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
