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Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
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Birth: 1954

Topics

Growing Up Cold Late New Growing Up

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Jim Fowler

Desert Plant You Find Place Potato

I've loved acting since I can remember.

John David Washington

Loved Remember Acting I Can Since

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

John Clare

Now Shakespeare John

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

John Masefield

Community Man Poetry Become Printing

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Jeffery Deaver

Write Single Begin Word Eight Prose

The sets were incredible. You would walk in at 6 in the morning, and we were really living in 'Blade Runner.'

Ana de Armas

Morning Walk You Living Incredible

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

John Podhoretz

Job Yourself Spiritual Weakness Get

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Robert Culp

Doing No Sense Disaster Wonderful

I don't think you should do something just to prove to an audience that you can do it, that's way out of your wheelhouse.

Tom Selleck

You Can Do It Think You Prove Way

One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.

Mary Frann

Dress Me Wish Boots Say Sketch

I think the way I am, the way I'm chilled out, has a lot to do with being Muslim and having faith.

Mo Farah

Faith I Am Think Way Out Being

I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.

Judy Blume

Mother Best World Always Assume