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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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India is my kid sister.
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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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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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There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.
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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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