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- If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
- I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
- It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
- As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used…
- I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of…
- I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it…
- 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…
- My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I…
- The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to…
- War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total…
- What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh…
- When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't…
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