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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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 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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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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There are different ways that people feel like it should be done. Any way that you can add a player -- I don't care if it's a trade, the draft, free agency -- I want to be aggressive. Free agency is a place where you make fewer mistakes because you're not trying to project somebody from a college environment to the pros. You've got somebody that has already played up here and been successful.
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Disunity costs votes.
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You think you have the most amazing life by having your dreams come true as a musician and marrying the woman of your dreams. But then you add a lil' baby girl... to the mix, and it's like you've never really lived and loved until she was here.
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Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.
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I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
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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.
