Salman Rushdie Quotes
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Boston will always be home to me.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
