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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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.
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Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
