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Salman Rushdie Quotes

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Alone Time Myself Me Writing Think

I don't want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I'm completely confused. I'm like, 'Didn't you make that movie already?' I've been very fortunate, and I'm well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

People Forward Care Confused You Go

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

Jennifer Capriati

Respect People Say Want Hear

It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, 'What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?'

Simple Brain Understanding Wrong Now

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

Love Science Mystery Science Fiction

I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress.

Faith New York People Think Judge

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit. That's all. But I like sweets.

Fruit Salad Eat Meat Sweets Little

The common denominator of the great women leaders in the world - Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir - is that they're dramatically nonsexual.

Women Great World Common Leaders

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

Health Priorities President Core Aid

When I was five, six, I drew myself as a cat a lot, because I was obsessed with cats. And then, as soon as I took my first riding lesson, I started drawing horses.

Myself Cats Drawing Lesson Riding

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

Family Childhood Doctor Surgeon Who

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Think You Forget Test Will See

Not liking me because I'm black is so juvenile and immature, because there's many reasons to not like me.

Christopher Priest

Me Black Immature Juvenile Because

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