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Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
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Birth: 1954

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Me Writing World Understanding Way

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

Johannes P. Muller

Perception New Kind Act Peculiar

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

Comedy You Done Stand-Up Comedy Just

Whether it's in America, Quebec, or France, if I can tell a story that takes me out of my comfort zone, then I'm surfing.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Me Comfort Zone Story America I Can

They haven't said it, but let's be clear: I would never have been on the list for James Bond, so I'm not labouring under that misapprehension.

Bond Said Never Clear Been Would

Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation.

Mathieu Kassovitz

Experience Government Situation See

I came out the womb dancing.

Michael K. Williams

Dancing Out I Came Womb Came

You can't be pretentious about what we do, because at the end of the day, movies are about entertainment, and if people get 10 dollars' worth, then that's okay.

Day People End Of The Day End You

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

Love Yourself Potential Reach You

Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.

Doing Lose Minds Fans Performing

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Romantic Someone Wrong Why Wondering

I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara.

Look Everyday Conservative More Lots

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

Brain Think Literature Cinema Brains

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