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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer it's just to annoy you.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.
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He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.
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The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.
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When I was writing The Satanic Verses, if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
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The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
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