Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
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My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.
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It's hard when you win the title to not think, 'I'm here. Now what do I do?'
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You obviously want to start the season out with a big game and to follow it up by continuing to get better.
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I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
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An athlete may not know what they're putting in their body.
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People really like the fact that I've worked at their job. It gives them a good feeling that I've experienced, even for a few hours, what they do on the job.
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Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.
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It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
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I don't put cash in my Louis Vuitton wallet. I have it thrown around my bag - jut a whole bunch of hundreds, maybe $5,000.
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Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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As a child of eight Mr. Trout had once kissed a girl of six under the mistletoe at a Christmas party, but there his sex life had come to abrupt halt.
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The hope is that we'll continue to create jobs for the vast majority of people. But if the situation arises that this is less and less the case, then we need to rethink, how do we make sure that everybody can make a living?
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I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
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Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .
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A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!
