Salman Rushdie Quotes
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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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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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.
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My dad signed me up for some acting classes at a place in Honolulu, and there I got to audition for some L.A.-based talent agents. I got a few 'callbacks' and so my mom and I decided to fly to California and check it out!
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Wise is one who knows much by nature
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
