Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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L.A. fashion is like lip injections. That confuses me. That's become not just a thing. It's become fashion, part of your outfit. But hey, to each his own.
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I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.
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I think we're the shortest relay team in history but we're fast.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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What I do think is important is this idea of a privacy native where you grow up in a world where the values of privacy are very different. So it's not that I'm against privacy but that the values around privacy are very different for me and for people who are younger than my parent's generation, for whom it's weird to live in a glass house.
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In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.
