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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.
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I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
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Is birth always a fall?
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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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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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My heart broke open and history fell in.
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I grew up kissing books and bread.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.
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