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Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

With 'Interpreter,' I didn't know it was ever going to be a book, that they were going to be published. I was writing them in a vacuum for the most part. They were my apprentice work. Then the stories happened to become a book.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Work Writing Book Know Become Going

As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.

Jenna Wortham

Culture Me Growing Up Book Lonely

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

Ann Landers

You Need Giraffe Guy Like Needs

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

Roger Daltrey

Night Problems You Body Your Body

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

Rupert Everett

World You Fit Eccentric Allowed

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

Mike White

Change Culture People Trying You

I like talking to people.

Miles Teller

People Talking Like

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.

Joseph Stefano

Time People Me Someone Meeting Know

When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.

Chris Hillman

Down Living Hollywood Playing West

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

Colbie Caillat

Writing Singing Guitar Play Three

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

Avi Arad

Family Parents Me Fighting Violence

We are the transition from one education to the other.

Alfred Rosenberg

Education Transition Other

The Dardenne brothers do a movie almost every year, and they put everything together to have a comfort.

Marion Cotillard

Together Year Comfort Everything Put