Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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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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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
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I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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