Salman Rushdie Quotes

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.

Tom Golisano

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Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

Michael Ondaatje

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For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.

Luke Evans

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I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

Dhani Harrison

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I was very political when JFK ran.

Bob Newhart

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I had been doing theater since I was a kid, so the stage really felt like home to me. It felt like the place where I trust myself the most in the world and felt the most confident.

Ari Graynor

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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Aristotle

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When I've had a talk with someone, I like them to leave unconfused. No need for contention.

Philip Green

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Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.

Shaun Tan

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I try not to be a typical athlete.

Tyronn Lue

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I have candles, pictures and flowers on my nightstand... and of course a lamp!

Khloe Kardashian

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I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

Jane McGonigal

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