#bout

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side. ↗

— Frank Lampard

#admit #concerned #going #i #many

I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#band #comes #demo #everything #hear

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#been #black #city #diverse #generation

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#all day #becomes #day #fans #good

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#breathe #certain #characters #conveying #enabling

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#arranged #aware #came #continue #did

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#denying #fretting #lot #upbringing

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#always #felt #first #had #i

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#actress #care #career #college #determined

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#all day #becomes #day #fans #good