Junot Diaz
Related EZRA MILLER As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL TRINNY WOODALL JACK MCBRAYER DREW GODDARD In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, ... PAULA FOX CHARLES FRAZIER For many years, I didn't feel I'd find anything that I'd like as much as 'Twin Peaks... SHERILYN FENN PAUL FARMER You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno... A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I l... ATO ESSANDOH JACQUELINE EMERSON CANDACE BUSHNELL I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses,... AMANDA MARSHALL KATY PERRY As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a showe... ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebod... BRUCE MCGILL When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so m... RUFUS SEWELL I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wo... HORTON FOOTE When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his... VALERIE JUNE I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again. NATHAN PARSONS I'd never done anything as high profile or professional as 'Skins', so 'Skins' i... APRIL PEARSON I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have... SIMON TOYNE NICKI MINAJ I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I&... ASA BUTTERFIELD EDMUND WHITE JOHNNY BENCH I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything ... DAVID WALLIAMS GEENA DAVIS I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch ... AL JOURGENSEN FIONA APPLE CHRIS SACCA RICHARD MATHESON I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live... JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I gu... WHITNEY CUMMINGS Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with B... PAUL GIAMATTI I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of t... EMILIA CLARKE EDMUND WHITE BOB DIAMOND ASHTON KUTCHER BOBBY ORR TRISHA YEARWOOD I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's script... DEREK CIANFRANCE RICHARD K. MORGAN LITTLE RICHARD NICKI MINAJ CHRISTOPHER LEE ELISHA CUTHBERT DAVE GROHL I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that'... DAVE BRUBECK As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English p... HOWARD JACOBSON WARREN SPECTOR MARIAN KEYES ADAM BEACH There are still many places I haven't seen that I'd like to travel to. I've never seen t... BJORN ULVAEUS I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even C... PRINCE ROYCE I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money ... GLENN FORD ANN COULTER I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating... VANITY I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my boo... BILL SIMMONS When I was young, I'd watch guys on 'The Tonight Show', Buddy Hackett, guys like that, w... NORM MACDONALD First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought... FRANK PERETTI IKE TURNER JOAN CUSACK In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just ... ANDY HERTZFELD MICHAEL MORPURGO PETER DINKLAGE I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a ... AMISH TRIPATHI I never expected that I'd be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thou... FAYE MARSAY TRENT REZNOR PEYTON MANNING HUNTER HAYES If I ever uttered one word that I said in 'Kick-Ass', I would be grounded for years! I'd... CHLOE GRACE MORETZ ACTION BRONSON I feel very lucky 'Arrested Development' was so successful because I never really got too mu... ALIA SHAWKAT I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd ... JANE BIRKIN JAMEELA JAMIL All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out,... CHET FAKER I saw a DJ from Germany called Sven Vath. I saw him in the club, he played for six hours and I was j... TIESTO I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen ... LAILA ROBINS NEIL PATRICK HARRIS When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly... CHRIS LILLEY I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job. ALLISON ANDERS
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JUNOT DíAZ There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of... JUNOT DíAZ But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,' he wrote back, 'This is my home. JUNOT DíAZ Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they ... JUNOT DíAZ That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s noth... JUNOT DíAZ You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has ama... JUNOT DíAZ We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there ... JUNOT DíAZ Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though th... JUNOT DíAZ It's never the changes we want that change everything. JUNOT DíAZ Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun... JUNOT DíAZ Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in... JUNOT DíAZ Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywher... JUNOT DíAZ All fruits do not ripen in one season. LAURIE JUNOT The next day you look at the new pages. For once you don't want to burn them or give up writing fore... JUNOT DíAZ You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this... JUNOT DíAZ Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play w... JUNOT DíAZ Some of our hearts are more Gothic and take to haunting. JUNOT DíAZ But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only wa... JUNOT DíAZ A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things. JUNOT DíAZ For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and ... JUNOT DíAZ You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the... JUNOT DíAZ ...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart ... JUNOT DíAZ They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of ... JUNOT DíAZ She never would admit it, but she felt utterly exposed at El Redentor, all those pale eyes gnawing a... JUNOT DíAZ Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is s... JUNOT DíAZ I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes. JUNOT DíAZ Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one. JUNOT DíAZ We all know that there are language forms that are considered impolite and out of order, no matter w... JUNOT DíAZ You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a co... JUNOT DíAZ Don’t tell her that your moms knew right away what it was, that she recognized its smell from the ... JUNOT DíAZ In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to b... JUNOT DíAZ Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often. JUNOT DíAZ I watched commercial ave. slide past and there in the distance were the lights of route 18. that was... JUNOT DíAZ He had secret loves all over town, the kind of curly-haired big-bodied girls who wouldn't have said ... JUNOT DíAZ The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean ... JUNOT DíAZ Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was ... JUNOT DíAZ Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the b... JUNOT DíAZ It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it. JUNOT DíAZ You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?JUNOT DíAZ You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, ... JUNOT DíAZ I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse,... JUNOT DíAZ Read more than you write, live more than you read JUNOT DíAZ What is clear is that being a reader/fanboy (for lack of a better term) helped him get through the r... JUNOT DíAZ His adolescent nerdliness vaporizing any iota of a chance he had for young love. Everybody else goin... JUNOT DíAZ She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing. JUNOT DíAZ It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing... JUNOT DíAZ Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've ... JUNOT DíAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life. MADI DIAZ Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and th... MADI DIAZ I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers. MADI DIAZ I use Shazam all the time. MADI DIAZ There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect reco... MADI DIAZ I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabi... MADI DIAZ My parents were super supportive of my big dreams; I was pretty lucky. I guess I became a musician b... MADI DIAZ My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five. MADI DIAZ Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tap... MADI DIAZ It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that... MADI DIAZ When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to gra... MADI DIAZ My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ... MADI DIAZ One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting th... MADI DIAZ I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving,... MADI DIAZ It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a tim... MADI DIAZ I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact th... MADI DIAZ When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally go... MADI DIAZ Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe ... MADI DIAZ I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy.... NATE DIAZ I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy. NATE DIAZ Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn'... NATE DIAZ Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful. NATE DIAZ I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in se... NATE DIAZ I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre.... NATE DIAZ There was a rumor I was walking around at 183 pounds. When I left my room to fight Conor McGregor, I... NATE DIAZ Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest pay... NATE DIAZ If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now. NATE DIAZ I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whateve... NATE DIAZ People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to ... NATE DIAZ I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press.... NATE DIAZ I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of the... NATE DIAZ My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classro... NATE DIAZ I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight. NATE DIAZ I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over pe... NATE DIAZ If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to... NATE DIAZ If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the ... NATE DIAZ People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. ... NATE DIAZ I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun. NATE DIAZ I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around p... NATE DIAZ I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be deal... NATE DIAZ Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to ... NATE DIAZ I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody. NATE DIAZ I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going o... NATE DIAZ It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there... 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NATE DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ CAMERON DIAZ The best way to find anything is to look with an opened mind. RICHARD DIAZ The rules are tricky and you have to be careful so you don't have to start all over. You really have... CARMEN DIAZ We're hoping to start a new tradition. CARMEN DIAZ We're trying to keep the tradition alive. Many don't celebrate it anymore. CARMEN DIAZ We've participated in so many festivals and activities in the community. It shows we're a growing co... CARMEN DIAZ Look, I'm in the moment. CARLOS DIAZ
I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things. 
I'd never have a facelift, as I have never seen one that looks good. 
When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did th... 
When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately ... 
I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have ... 
I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through... 
When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to au... 
I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fict... 
I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I... 
I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that a... 
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing th... 
I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing... 
I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the do... 
I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip s... 
There I was - 20 years old, living in Ireland, and I'd never heard the word 'venture capital... 
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like... 
I recall my dad saying about me once that the only time he'd ever heard me say 'never' w... 
When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own pro... 
I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work. 
I'm as surprised as anybody. I never would have thought I'd be here talking about having a c... 
I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite ... 
I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a... 
When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff an... 
When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a life... 
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never s... 
I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture ... 
As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be ou... 
I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never... 
I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they&... 
I'm the female Bob Woodward! If I were a liberal, I couldn't write another book. I'd be ... 
I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my li... 
I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the b... 
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You lea... 
I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - be... 
My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if t... 
Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning's son, I felt like a target, and I've always kno... 
I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I... 
I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos ... 
After the cancer-free diagnosis, I thought I'd go off and do the things I never did in my teens ... 
'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, ... 
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a ... 
I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and t... 
Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done. 
I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procras... 
I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing g... 
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no a... 