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Salman Rushdie Quotes

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Live God World Need Explain Idea

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

Jessica Hagedorn

Imagination Identity You Grandmother

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Truth Man Me Present Place Know

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

Jeanette Winterson

Woman Husband Artist Helpful

In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.

Life Man Story Living Bloom Never

When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.

Science Die Body Science Fiction

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

Home Cooking Looking Learn You Go

I think being negative is being positive. You can't improve without stating the problem.

Positive Negative Think Problem You

We are very excited about welcoming a new member of the family, a daughter!

Michael Weatherly

Family Daughter New Excited Member

I'm a real Luddite.

Louise Rennison

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

Day People Ideas Tools Help Trying

Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.

War World Cold End Political She

When I went to Sundance back in 1998, indie film was all the rage, and Miramax was throwing down five or six million dollars for several films each year. Those were the salad days of indie film, and those days are over. I'm not out there worrying too much about it.

Year Back Down Too Much Salad Over

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