Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
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Man is an imagining being.
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We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!
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Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.
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I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
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As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the woods. And I'd only come home to eat or when I was thirsty.
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If she ever tries to fucking leave again, Im'a tie her to the bed and set this house on fire.
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There are pretty girls all over the place. But there are still a lot of people standing strong, doing their thing in loving relationships, actually staying true. I wanted to write an honest love song from that point of view.
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We are what we eat, so I eat as many veggies as I can!
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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.
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The drop shots and lobs are very effective in senior tennis.
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Everybody has their own way to deal with it. I don't concern myself with other people's - whether or not they want to come out, it's not something for me think about.
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Like anything, I remember who I work for. You work for the people who sent you to office.
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People like you are the reason People like me need medication.
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My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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Don't let your upbringing, your surroundings, whatever situation you are living in, don't let those stop you from being the greatest you that you can be.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.
