Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodI AmMeStoryEasyYou

I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing them how valuable they were. Because they're ready to give it up and go into teaching or television.

John Guare

SchoolWritingTelevisionDramaGo

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

Maynard Webb

WorkOpportunityGreatCoolTalking

The perception of Donald Trump in capitals around the world is shaped, in many ways, by CNN. Continuing to have an adversarial relationship with that network is a mistake.

Jeff Zucker

RelationshipMistakeWorldPerception

What's great about Netflix is that everything is kind of instantaneous, and it goes around the world instantly. Everything is released at once. The format can be a little bit whatever you want.

Shonda Rhimes

GreatWorldYouWantKindNetflix

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.

Mary Beth Whitehead

MotherMyselfMeHusbandStrongSee

We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work on in this lifetime.

Louise L. Hay

WorkMirrorParentsColorChoose

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

Josh Holloway

RoadDirtUpBrothersGrew

It annoys me when people who don't know what they're talking about boo the referee.

Jonah Lomu

PeopleMeTalkingKnowRefereeWho

When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence.

Chris Gibson

StrengthPeaceTalkingYouTalk

When I was a critic, I reviewed Public Enemy's 'Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age' - this is back in '94 - and I called it a 'Dante-esque spiral of the hip-hop hell.' I idolized Chuck D, but I just hated that record, and I did not hold back. Chuck didn't freeze me out. Every time I met Chuck, he always treated me with the utmost respect.

Cheo Hodari Coker

AgeRespectTimeMeHellBack

I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'

Cindy Crawford

I AmAdmitSometimesSayWearGoing

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

Peter Scott

EagleAlwaysHighShootingLowThan

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