Salman Rushdie Quotes

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Stephen Hawking

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I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the type of cultural conversation that a role like Giancarlo Esposito on 'Breaking Bad,' or actually any of the people on 'Breaking Bad.' I would love to have a role in a feature film that was a cultural talking point.

Stephen Amell

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You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies.

Steven Berkoff

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I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.

Tracy Spiridakos

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I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.

David Wenham

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What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.

Dayananda Saraswati

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Think Tank, noun: The shower.

Craig Bruce

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I fell in love with Sinatra when I was very young.

Brendon Urie

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I wish I could unknow this, but there is a perception of me that I'm super-sensitive and fragile. And I am super-sensitive, and I don't think that that's a bad thing. To do what I do, I have to remain open.

Winona Ryder

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I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

Pierce Brosnan

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