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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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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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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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 think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
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Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
