Salman Rushdie Quotes
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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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 was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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So far there is no evidence for increased chance of human-to-human transmission.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
