Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CollegeWritingStartedSlowlyAfter

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

Jill Sobule

Rock StarRockKidSpyStarWanted

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

John Baldacci

OpportunitiesSecurityKindEmbrace

I'm obsessed with broadcasting.

Mauro Ranallo

BroadcastingObsessed

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

Stephen Daldry

I AmHappyTheatreWorldPersonOff

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

Tom Brown, Jr.

CourageDriveOwlWillSpiritSize

Kerastase and Bed Head have really good products.

Rita Ora

GoodBedHeadProductsReally

I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.

Romola Garai

ThinkPerfectBadIntelligentAlways

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

Rush Limbaugh

WorkPowerGovernmentPeopleSucceed

Not to be harsh, but why do we care so much about celebrity acceptance of Christian beliefs?

Monica Johnson

AcceptanceCareChristianWhyMuch

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Jonathan Swift

LiveAgeManLongWishesOld

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

Diana Wynne Jones

LifeGoodHomeMeBookKid

I hate karaoke. I don't want to sing karaoke, and I don't want to listen to people sing karaoke.

Pedro Pascal

HatePeopleWantListenKaraoke

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