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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Pain Baby Writing You Sometimes Ask

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

Pressure Go Office Must Terrible

You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.

Work Goals Great Work Ethic You

The Jew is upset because the nations of the world - the United Nations - lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him.

Hate Evil World Brand Desire Upset

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

John O. Brennan

Intelligence Better Want Possible

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

Love You Escape Movies Big Going

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.

People Think Media Too Much Vote

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Me Think Bless Indigenous I Think

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

Great Progress Effort People Gold

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Martin Seligman

Process Never Torture Would Provide

I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

Me Eagle Mad Scout Pollution Who

I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.

Trust School Parents Me Wish Nice

I think that a lot of women experience that balance between feeling insecure about and appreciative for their bodies. I definitely have.

Women Experience Balance Think About

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