"You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point."

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Source : Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.53, Penguin

Dinaw Mengestu

#Breakup Quotes #Point Break Quotes #Fighter Quotes

“When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.”
“If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.”
“Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love you”
“Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.”
“... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!”
“When I lose, it doesn't just go to my head; it goes to my heart too. If you're at all in the match, if you love to play and ein, it must go to your heart.”
“I think theres a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures. Theres really so much more to me than that.”
“I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.'”

Source : Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. December 4, 2009.

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