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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.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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