Salman Rushdie Quotes

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

Jo Brand

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I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

Robert Kiyosaki

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I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

Max Cannon

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Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.

Anand Mahindra

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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Stephen Leacock

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I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.

Star Jones

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It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures.

Tracy Letts

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There are so many variables that go into a fight, you shouldn't waste your time worrying about the other fighters.

Rose Namajunas

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There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

Mike White

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President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.

Dee Dee Myers

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The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.

David Ulevitch

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Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights.

Chris Young

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