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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Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.
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Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.
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People like you are the reason People like me need medication.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.
