"On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl."

-- Jhumpa Lahiri

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“Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.”

Source : "Wheeler W. Dixon The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image". Book by Wheeler Winston Dixon, February 28, 2000.
“If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!”
“When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.”
“Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity”
“Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.”
“When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.”
“For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.”
“If the job is not what you expected and not even your cup of tea, stay put and learn as much as you can while you carefully consider your next move.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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