Salman Rushdie Quotes
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.
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Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.
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If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.
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I have ten thousand memories of myself writing alone in basements, bizarre servant quarters, cemeteries, deserted fountains, the band van, and other awkward settings.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
