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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
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Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
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Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
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English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
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Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.
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We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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