Salman Rushdie Quotes
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.
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MMA has the rudest, most negative, dumbest, ignorant fans in the world - but it also has the most passionate fans in the world.
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Sexy is attitude, but fitness for me is my dance. I dance two hours nearly every day. You break into good sweat, and it doesn't even feel like exercise. Apart from that, I enjoy Pilates.
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I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.
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It is this breathtaking image of success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
