Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

I AmStoryDetailsFallComplexAm

My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I'm always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality - and I often fall short.

Steve Breen

QualityShortTryingFallAlways

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

Stefon Harris

MusicSoulCityListeningWonder

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

Steven Pinker

PlantsBehaviorWantDefendEatUs

I don't really like watching 3-D.

Roger Deakins

WatchingLikeReally

I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.

Mike D

GoodWritingSpeakWineEnjoyKind

Colorado is a trade-dependent state.

Jared Polis

ColoradoState

I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.

Dianna Agron

MeYearBackNowFirstSix

I always used to get in trouble for talking too much. When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

Derek Jeter

TimeParentsMeTalkingRemember

Even the Republicans themselves have acknowledged they have a diversity problem. If you look at their autopsy report following the 2012 election, they have specifically said they would continue to lose presidential elections unless they address the problem that they have with their alienation of minority groups.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

DiversityProblemYouLoseLook

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Bryan Cranston

HumorPoliticsSomethingMixing

Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror.

Svetlana Alexievich

MomentSameUpStartedUniversal

I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.

Sunil Mittal

BusinessChanceBrandNameFastUp

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