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This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#any #children #could #group #happens

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could. ↗

— Ian Rush

#could #enjoying #enjoyment #exactly #football

I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach. ↗

— Ian Rush

#approach #down #great #i #i think

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture

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. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#almost #anyway #child #disappeared #force

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#consider #east #fatal #friend #i

I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#beautiful #big #countryside #fact #i

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know? ↗

— Steven Wright

#humor #funny

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#deficient #deserve #let us #lives #many