Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMyselfWritingQuestionsYou

Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Jo Nesbo

SuccessWritingSameCulturesThanks

What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the genre of reality like it's television from the devil, and that's something that I don't like because I think everybody should watch what they like. It's a free world. It's a form of democracy. If you like it, watch. If you don't like it, don't watch.

John de Mol, Jr.

PeopleDemocracyWorldFreeThink

Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

Max Weber

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I'm real big on making sure everything is right and taking my time.

Metro Boomin

TimeRightRealEverythingBigSure

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Robert Fitzgerald

WorkWinterSeaThinkImpactRocks

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

Rodney Atkins

ParentsBabyYouKnowWonderfulMay

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd.

Michael Scheuer

PeopleThinkAmericanDangerousWant

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

Jean de la Bruyere

FirstOperaFineDraftIdea

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.

Jose Mourinho

AgeMeYouBornRealJust

We focus so much on our relationships with other people, and beauty, for me, is about facilitating your relationship with yourself.

Jonathan Van Ness

BeautyRelationshipFocusYourself

It's great to have an honest course where you can use your strength. I swim 10 hours a week, I bike 20 hours a week, and I want to be able to show that.

Jonathan Brownlee

StrengthGreatBikeWeekYouWant

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