Salman Rushdie Quotes

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.

Jessie Mueller

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Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

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Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

Robert J. Sawyer

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Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.

Jeff Perry

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In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story.

Michael Connelly

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Pat Boone is an icon in this country. He's not a guy who's going to pull the wool over people's eyes. He's going to tell them the truth.

Stephen Fincher

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When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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I said a vote to leave would be a Brexit tax. I couldn't think of anything stronger than that.

Jose Angel Gurria

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When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.

Johnny Galecki

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There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.

Christopher Monckton

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The sex with Mandy was good, but it wasn't like warm apple pie.

Wilmer Valderrama

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I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

William J. Clinton

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