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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Used Favorite England I Came Before

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Jef I. Richards

Art Creative Advertising Strategy

My favorite collaborator is Dane Laffrey, who designed the set for 'Once on This Island,' but we've worked together since high school, when he was my roommate.

Together School High School Island

In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.

Subcomandante Marcos

Will Up Expensive Repeat Sit Seat

I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.

Identity Me Thought Career Kind Out

Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not galloping past your window on the way to the latest anything. They're living their lives. You do a play, they come and see it and say, 'That's nice', and then they go home.

Home Past People Window Fashion You

I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

Diane von Furstenberg

Girl Woman Young Never Always Even

If I'd had more courage, I would've pursued a less commercial path. Maybe I would've gone into musical theater.

Courage Path More Gone Commercial

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

History Blame Story Events Praise

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

Christopher McDougall

Animal Speed Endurance Run Way Try

My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Mother Age Community Run Try Office

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

Religion Dating Better Nothing

I never wear a black belt with a black shoe. It's always the opposite: a brown shoe with a black belt.

Black Shoe Never Always Wear Brown

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