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... →
Geoffrey Rush
I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the... →
Ian Rush
I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy... →
Otis Rush
Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines... →
Salman Rushdie
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... →
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... →
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland.... →
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban... →
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in... →
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the... →