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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Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.
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There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.
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I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.
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I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.
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I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
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A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!
