Salman Rushdie Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.
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I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
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Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians - including children, the most vulnerable of all.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
