Salman Rushdie Quotes
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
Quotes to Explore
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
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I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
