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'The Satanic Verses' was deni...

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

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Every time you finish a book,...

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

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Many men start being friendly...

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

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In today's U.S., it's possibl...

In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

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The West sees Iran as an impo...

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

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All my adult life, if I didn'...

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

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People are always telling me ...

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

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If the creative artist worrie...

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

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One of the extraordinary thin...

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

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Many of us didn't believe in ...

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

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Broad-mindedness is related t...

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

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It's true that the human body...

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

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Like everybody else, I've had...

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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I've been fascinated by Machi...

I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

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England in a way is lucky. It...

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

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Bin Laden was born filthy ric...

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

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Islam is unusual in that it's...

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

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Certainly, poverty and econom...

Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

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Anyone who reads my work will...

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

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If you actually want to chang...

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

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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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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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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....