Salman Rushdie Quotes
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and started writing songs.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.
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Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
