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Salman Rushdie Quotes

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good People Good People Bad People

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

Family Food World Feel You Far Away

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Jean de La Fontaine

Pleasure Twice Deceive Deceiver

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

People Revolution Key Two People Two

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

Wrong Sometimes Human Reason Things

There's this idea that when you make a certain amount of money that you should be staying at four-star hotels and taking town cars. And believe me, I will take a town car every day, but there are some things where it's like, 'Is this necessary? Is this important?'

Car Money Day Me Believe You

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

Live You Possible Rude Tell Get

I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.

Misty May-Treanor

Time Cats Animal People House Dogs

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

Better You Try More Need Stage

Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't write in order. I write bits and pieces and sort of glue them.

Good People Thought Now Write Glue

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Teen Years Through Clown Being Got

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

Family Power Health Money Plants

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

Life Poetry Better My Life Worse

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