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What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.


Arthur Laffer


#bail #christmas #colleague #does #else

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.


James Lafferty


#advice #anything #aspiring #comes #craft

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#come #experience #indians #may #reminded

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#another #corresponded #fit #four #happened

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#device #i #i think #kind #projecting

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#accounts #actually #computers #email #few

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#book #even #i #interpreter #itself

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.


Les Brown


#about #carrying #feelings #happened #hinder

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#anywhere #basic #descriptions #easy #get

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#come #experience #indians #may #reminded






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