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Salman Rushdie Quotes

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Change Yourself World Better Doing

We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons.

Good Mother Music Singing Church

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.

Try Anything Peculiar Mark Film

I'm not counting any chickens.

Chickens Counting Any

Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer System Complex Just Disease

I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.

Ideas Think Laugh You Know Actor

I do not like a quiche with wet, undercooked pastry underneath, and that is that.

Pastry Wet Underneath Like

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life.

Life God Time People Me Bible

Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'

Jason Alexander

Funny Interesting You Lose Down Up

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Funny Start Fake Trying You Feeling

What I implore you to do is believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there that you will have an impact as a result of what you do, and you don't need to know now what that will be, or how that will happen, because nobody ever does.

Yourself Choices Believe Impact You

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

Look Back Say More Always Been

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

Music Feel You Want Way Out

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