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Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
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Birth: 1954

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Writing Three Lived Philippines Been

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

Think You Artist Look Back Go

I love hip-hop, and everybody knows that.

Love Hip-Hop Knows Everybody I Love

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Steven Spielberg

Opportunity Balance Giving Someone

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

Time Experience Past Happy Mom

My audience loves seeing me pump large amounts of money into action and sets. And it works. I'm not saying that films made within a budget are wrong. But when audiences come to see my film with their families, I guess they are spending at least 10 per cent of their monthly income. I don't want to cheat them.

Money Me Action Saying Seeing Wrong

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny. And I discovered a lot of great writers that went on to do a lot of great shows like 'Seinfeld,' 'Friends,' you know, 'Three and a Half Men.'

Funny Great Men Friends You Person

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Life People Colleagues My Life Gay

I'm an everything Baltimore fan.

Everything Fan Baltimore

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Character Story You Way Same Your

This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It's easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.

Respect Yourself Surround Yourself Up

I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful.

Looking Single Meaningful Something

Your love is your love. It doesn't matter whether you're 18 or 68; there can still be someone that makes you feel that way.

Love Love Is Feel Someone You Way

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