Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing.

Jennifer Connelly

ResearchFindGoKnowWantWorst

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

Andreas Schleicher

LiveWorldRichPoorDividedLonger

I'm a big advocate of drones.

Robert M. Gates

DronesAdvocateBig

I've always felt that there's a Catskills comic who lives in my head and is constantly trying to get out. There's all these jokes that have been passed down from Jewish generation to Jewish generation, which I love but which I've always made fun of.

Andy Kindler

LoveFunGenerationTryingDownOut

I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

Michael Hutchence

LifeTogetherPrivate LifePress

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

John Steinbeck

UglySickFaceEarthTrueWeak

It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record - it's not that uncommon.

Steve Aoki

MusicTimeYouRealBoundariesTake

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.

Steve Nash

GoodYouHealthyKnowStayPlayer

I left home when I was 13. When I was 15, I was living in a youth hostel, and I was the 167-pound amateur wrestling champion.

Roddy Piper

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I consider myself lucky to be going about my business doing something I love.

Ruth Bradley

LoveBusinessMyselfDoingLucky

Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.

Michele Bachmann

KnowNeedEverythingUpHereIowa

A vest, as a clothing item, always makes a statement, but depending on context, those declarations vary a great deal.

Josh Gondelman

GreatAlwaysClothingContextDeal

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