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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.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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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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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.
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There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.
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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.
