Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.
Quotes to Explore
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.
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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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We have deep depth.
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There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
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All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.
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for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.
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I believe Obama is a lot of fun when he's not trying to keep our economy together.
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.
