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I am clearly vulnerable to th...

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

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I am on Facebook, but mainly ...

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

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There are two things in India...

There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

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The reason why books endure i...

The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.

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The West should be tougher on...

The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

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Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' w...

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

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Whenever I write something, I...

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

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We cannot allow religious hoo...

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

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I think that England made a v...

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

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Someone asked me if I was afr...

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

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I have always thought, the se...

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

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One of the things I've learnt...

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

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Human beings, you see, do abs...

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

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What I worry about and don't ...

What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

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If I had simply wanted to tra...

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

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The West was involved in topp...

The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

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I don't know what to say abou...

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

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I have had many more close wo...

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

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I remember when I was young, ...

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

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At the height of the British ...

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....