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Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Mother Me Speak Language Result

I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.

Creative Story Thought Career Way

In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.

Think Help Ask Up Scotland Allies

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Michael C. Hall

Work People Me Feel Know Done

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

Democracy Reading You Too Much Know

A man is born free.

Stokely Carmichael

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

Character Hope Job People Believe

We want Nelson Mandela and the people of South Africa to know that we will stand shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, until apartheid is eradicated.

People Stand Know Want Will Africa

We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher - that's what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

Business Someone Profit Numbers Run

I love baseball. As a teenager, I was a contrarian and picked the underdog instead of just rooting for the Yankees. It's a hard team to root for, but there's something that always keeps me hopeful.

Love Baseball Me Team Underdog Hard

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

Love Time Food Best Love Is Space

It's weird writing for a documentary because I have all these ideas for what I want to happen, but what actually happens is obviously completely different.

Ideas Writing Weird Want Happen

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

School College High School Guitar

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