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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Isolation You Somewhere Poet Where

I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food from fast food places. I'd go into fast food chains and pretend I was from a movie studio, tell them they didn't send us the right order and demand they fix it. I've tried to make that right whenever I could.

Food Money Short Fast Go Sometimes

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

Walk Parents Me Dinner Thinking You

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

Time Art Think Too Much Know Want

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

Simon Mainwaring

Change Thinking Creating Will Become

I'm not disciplined at all. I barely function. But I get a lot done. I take days off all the time, but when I work, I work very fast and very efficiently. But I'm always having days when I'm feeling a little anxious, and I take a day off. I work in a funny way.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Work Funny Time Day Fast Done

I like involved projects.

Involved Like Projects

You - I don't think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That's something that everybody remembers, and it doesn't matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.

Love Time Think You Feelings Person

We're not alt-right, and we're not old-school, National-Review-boring Right - we're aggressive. We're in a meme world - we're in a world where you have to be catchy, punchy.

Eyes People You Kind Him Anything

Public campaign financing isn't perfect and can doubtlessly be improved upon as we go.

Perfect Go Campaign Public Improved

Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.

Me Say Two Seen Just Pub

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

Prayer Poetry Writing Believing Up

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

Christian Lacroix

Fashion Trends Fashion Designer Just

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