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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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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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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From Themistocles began the saying, 'He is a second Hercules.'
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The horror of uncreative solitude.....
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.
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Sometimes people don't like me because I'm too honest; I speak the truth.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
