Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

I've met writers who wanted to be writers from the age of six, but I certainly had no feelings like that. It was only in the Philippines when I was about 15 that I started reading books by very contemporary writers of the Beatnik generation.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
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  • Birth: 1954

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Sid Caesar

LifeGoalsLivedEnjoyedBetween

I like to watch films with my wife and friends. That's how films should be watched. Only then can you enjoy the movies. Then whether it is raunchy or not, hardly matters.

Riteish Deshmukh

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I don't fear death. If it happens, it was meant to happen.

Rohan Marley

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I love, love, love fantasy, like 'Lord of the Rings' and things like that.

Molly Quinn

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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Investigating some of the largest subprime lenders - Wells Fargo, Countrywide, Ameriquest, Household Finance - I've seen how their terrible, toxic loans were closed by any means necessary and eventually packaged, sold as securities, and bet upon until they exploded and decimated our economy.

Lisa Madigan

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Gareth Southgate is a fantastic manager, and he knows what I am about.

Dele Alli

I AmManagerFantasticKnowsHeAm

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

Brendan Coyle

SuccessStupidBecomeGotComeBeen

Ripple is focused on enabling a global network of financial institutions to use our software to create what we call the Internet of Value.

Brad Garlinghouse

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My family were really happy for me that I'm going to such a big club as Manchester United. They definitely were a bit nervous because of my high price, but I'm going to stay focused on proving my worth.

Anthony Martial

FamilyHappyStay FocusedMeWorth

French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.

William Klein

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Ethanol is a long-term solution that will take time.

Sharad Pawar

TimeSolutionWillTakeLong-Term

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