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Salman Rushdie Quotes

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: June 19, 1947

Topics

Nature Censorship Crime Human Tell

I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

Good Home Caring People Enough You

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Robert McChesney

Support Advertising Society Media

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

Focus Writing Book I Can New Prime

I don't mind children cribbing answers off other children. It's one of the ways they can learn. I also don't think there should be too many constraints on what they can look at on the Internet.

Children Mind Think Internet Learn

Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated me. I did not like going to my dad's shoots. We were taught not to get carried away with it from a very young age.

Age Time Me Growing Up Young Never

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

Music Fashion Will Changes Old Same

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

You Down Emotion Need Everything

I think the people that want to fly in space, who want to work in space, who want to go to station, these people realize that there is a risk inherent to what they do. They understand that there are possible off-nominal situations, dangerous situations in space, and there's no insurance against that.

Roman Romanenko

Work Space People Fly Think Want

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

Goals Myself Baseball Growing Up

I DJ'd and sang at Miami Basel 2013.

I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.

Quality I Am Degree Am Bent

This may sound surprising for someone who works in Hollywood, but I do not count calories, and I don't even care about weight gain, which I know sounds really bizarre. I listen to my body. I don't just wake up in the morning and cook whatever I eat.

Morning Wake Up Care Someone Body

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