Salman Rushdie Quotes
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
