Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

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  • Birth: 1954

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StoryDoingYouBackGoNew

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

Jim Harrison

SuccessYouSuccess IsSenseYour

I love creme liner because I have lash extensions and sometimes the liquid liner can get into the lashes. It's also easier to guide. I can create straighter lines with it.

Meagan Good

LoveI CanCreateSometimesLashes

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

LoveI AmAmericanGothicStories

The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left - the stranglehold that it has on culture.

Milo Yiannopoulos

CultureMeLanguageReactionLeft

Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.

Diana Ross

TimeLegacyThinkFeelSomeoneYou

With shows with plus-sized characters, there are all of these lines of being jealous at so and so or mad at so and so for being skinny and their great diets. It's so all-encompassing and exhausting. I'm not saying that's not some women, but it's just not all of us.

Donna Lynne Champlin

WomenGreatSayingJealousMadUs

For me, I've always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts.

Chris Klein

FightMeReadyGoAlwaysOut

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

William Shakespeare

GodFaceYouMakeGivenAnother

There's a natural antipathy on the part of the voters to a continuation of globalization as we know it. It's simply a code word today for bad trade deals that disadvantage the American people.

Peter Navarro

TodayPeopleAmericanBadKnowCode

I'm tall now, but when I was younger, I used to tower above everyone - I still feel conscious of that.

Tuppence Middleton

FeelNowTallEveryoneTowerAbove

When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that.

Morten Tyldum

BeautifulYourselfStepWorldDoing

I have fans all around the world.

Leslie Easterbrook

WorldFansAround

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