Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fiction? Puritan fiction? This distinction doesn't agree with me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Would I have signed to Def Jam if I knew they was deaf? Nah.

Jeremih

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In L.A., people will recognize me for doing 'Girls,' but have no idea that I have ever done anything on Broadway or can sing or dance or any of that stuff.

Andrew Rannells

DancePeopleMeDoingDoneWill

With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.

John Lothrop Motley

GreatPeopleSovereigntyAssembly

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

Stephen Hough

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When I was in high school, there was a lot of pressure on me. I felt like I had to be perfect.

Troian Bellisario

SchoolMeHigh SchoolPressureHigh

What I didn't appreciate about myself is that I'm good at coaching leaders.

Julia Hartz

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Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

Davy Jones

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So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

Countee Cullen

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I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.

Brie Larson

AttitudeMeBelieveThinkChoose

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

Annie Dillard

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I was always into punk, ever since I was 13, but I was into other stuff, too - like, well, the Spice Girls. I really liked Scary Spice.

Alice Dellal

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I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.

Pierce Brosnan

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