Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1967

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I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.

Megan McCafferty

AgeMyselfThinkFindWonderGo

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

John Lydon

ThinkWrongNeedSomethingGeneral

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

Steve Buscemi

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This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

Spencer Tracy

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Modeling wasn't necessarily what I was into. It's something that you're genetically qualified to do.

Trish Goff

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Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.

Trisha Yearwood

MusicPassionTimeSayWantOld

My last show that I did on Broadway was - I hate to say this, but - 'Cats.' There you go. So I was doing 'Cats' on Broadway, and I injured my back. It was a really tough show.

Rob Marshall

HateCatsToughDoingYouBack

As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, 'Oh, there's a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.'

Michael Schur

PeopleFeelPlanYouSometimesMore

Probably nobody in America has come close to setting up as many jobs for people with his business as Donald Trump has.

Bobby Knight

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I thought I was gonna be a farmer.

Brock Lesnar

ThoughtFarmerGonna

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.

Annaleigh Ashford

MusicPeopleSingingLovedWayKid

I'm more nerdy in a sense of, like, video games and Dungeons and Dragons and Renaissance Faire. But not nerdy in a sense that I know how to create apps.

Thomas Middleditch

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