Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
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  • Birth: 1954

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LiveFindWantExploreFictionWell

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.

Joe Morton

SocietyViewYouWillWayFirst

I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.

Joe Donnelly

Working TogetherTogetherFightThink

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Joey Ramone

NowSoundUsJustFoundationsTakes

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

John Avlon

PowerResponsibilityBelieveFirst

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Amy Tan

GoodArtMyselfWritingAesthetic

Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

John Polkinghorne

WorkWorldBelieveRealityPhysics

I make no excuses. Stefan Struve was the man that night. He earned his win fair and square.

Stipe Miocic

ManWinNightExcusesFairEarned

Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.

Stuart Appleby

LifeCollegeBelieveMy LifeDoing

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart.

Tom Lenk

HeartOldTheaterMajor

Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone's got lovely teeth, so you don't want to smile. Everyone's ripped, so you start working out at 4 in the morning and eating egg white omelets.

Rob James-Collier

SmileMorningEatingStartEggYou

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

Robert Wyatt

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Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Michio Kaku

StarsSunShineBornKnowWant

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