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Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Author Profession: author
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Birth: 1954

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Anxiety You Nostalgia Over Get Most

Deed, not words shall speak me.

Words Me Speak Shall Deed

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

Children Time Happy People Be Happy

Among identical twins who have the exact same genes, one may die early of a heart attack and the other may live a long, healthy life - depending on their lifestyle and what they eat.

Life Live Heart Die Long Early

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.

Day Find Actor Brilliant Nest Over

There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.

Change Little Things Way More Gone

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.

Hate Soul People Fashion Push Quick

Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn't need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn't need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants - his personality is synonymous with success.

Motivational Success Alone Talk Need

The one thing I'm not tempted to ever do is stop working. Retirement would be too tough for me. As a workaholic and an insomniac, I identified with my subject, General Dumas, who, according to field reports, would ride on patrols without sleep sometimes for two nights on end before going into battle - and winning.

Ride Sleep Me Winning Retirement

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.

Law Chair Find Student Listen Empty

When I'm standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can't just whip out my Bible before I run. That's when I start praying! It's so loud that I can't even hear what I'm saying, but it always helps.

Start Saying Bible Run Always Out

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'

Roses Go Say Ask Always Years

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Feeling Inferiority Outpouring

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