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Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.


Cameron Diaz

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JUNOT DIAZ I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, ...
JUNOT DIAZ Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and ...
JUNOT DIAZ It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing...
JUNOT DIAZ I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.
JUNOT DIAZ I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to ...
JUNOT DIAZ I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against...
JUNOT 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 It's been crazy. I've got a new job, we're looking for a home in Vegas and, in the middle of all of ...
CARLOS DIAZ I?m sad. I?m sad for (the Rodriguez) family. I?m sad that my family had to go through this, ... The ...
CARLOS DIAZ My wife and I were so protective of him because of the acquittal, ... I was always on top of him. Th...
CARLOS DIAZ I took the T-shirt off him, and it was like a hose inside his chest. Blood was everywhere,
CARLOS DIAZ We march today because we are immigrants, we work hard and we love the USA.
CARLOS DIAZ a monster that breeds monsters.
CARLOS DIAZ I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was ...
JUNOT DIAZ A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because...
JUNOT DIAZ Believing in the person you love, first you have to make sure they believe in you too.
SANDIBEL DIAZ He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship ...
MIGUEL DIAZ For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtl...
JUNOT DIAZ So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-...
JUNOT DIAZ We started off as a very individualistic program where everybody was doing their own thing, but we'v...
MANNY DIAZ In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fiction...
JUNOT DIAZ There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can creat...
JUNOT DIAZ I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.
JUNOT DIAZ I'm a product of a fragmented world.
JUNOT DIAZ God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
JUNOT DIAZ