Salman Rushdie Quotes
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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I remember when I was little, much younger than I was when I started modeling, people always said, 'Oh, you should be a model.' But I didn't like people telling me what to do... But I didn't plan to transform into an actress, either. It just happened.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
