Salman Rushdie Quotes
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
Ed McMahon
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
Halle Berry
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I see myself as a story teller.
E. L. James
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
Dan Coats
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
Caprice Bourret
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
Lady Gaga
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
Rachel Kushner
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
Abby Wambach
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
Sam Donaldson
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
Garrett Hardin
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
Parker Posey
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'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
Louis Theroux
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids' gear for parents in need. So on weekends, I look forward to uninterrupted time with my family.
Jessica Seinfeld
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I believe that every Nobel Laureate has the feeling that this prize is really a gift - because nobody can or should work just for this prize.
Klaus von Klitzing
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I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
Bruce Davison
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie