Salman Rushdie Quotes
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.
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I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.
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If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.
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Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.