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Salman Rushdie Quotes

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Morning Myself Discipline Job Go Up

Diversify, because that helps reduce risk. And you can diversify outside the United States. Some people would never invest in Europe - I think that's a mistake.

Robert J. Shiller

Mistake People Think You Risk Never

When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'

People Me Book Thinking You Copy

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

Myself Theatre Think Television Try

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

I am a geologist.

I Am Am Geologist

I started working out with my father the summer I was 13, which was incredible for our relationship. Those were my summers: working out with my dad, hanging out with my brothers, riding my bike. Pretty simple.

Michael Strahan

Father Relationship Simple Bike Out

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Corruption Poverty Attention Cancer

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences.

Life I Am Universe Result Us Direct

If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.

Work Leadership Men You Dark Mad

I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.

Courtney Barnett

School Start Nobody Jazz Rock Tried

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

Chris Van Allsburg

Simple Start Complicated Even Most

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

Arthur Hugh Clough

World Nothing Where Had

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