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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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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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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It's kinda all about image.
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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 don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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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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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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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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I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.
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In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.
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A bad laugh is a laugh for the sake of a laugh that's out of character.
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I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great.
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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.
