Junot Diaz
Related I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten ... PIA TOSCANO KELSEA BALLERINI DAVID BERGEN When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the ... SHEPARD SMITH When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share somethin... ETGAR KERET I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of ... DAVE GAHAN BARRY EISLER I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, wr... LUDACRIS I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I&#... KELLY MASTERSON RUSSELL CROWE BEN OKRI ORHAN PAMUK When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I us... DAN GILROY Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON VERONICA ROTH BILL BURR DAVID NICHOLLS IGGY POP Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.... LINDA SUE PARK I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ... IAN RANKIN I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I hav... FAITH RINGGOLD TANITH LEE ERIK LARSON ROXANE GAY KARL ROVE KELLEY ARMSTRONG For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's wei... SAMPHA NIKKI SIXX I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno... ARIEL PINK I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my per... MAIA MITCHELL MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a... MAGGIE CAREY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say,... PAOLO BACIGALUPI For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some... CAT POWER My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the ... MIKHAIL BULGAKOV KEKE PALMER ERIN WASSON When I'm Los Angeles, it's work. That's what I'm there for is work. DAKOTA GOYO My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I'v... COLMAN DOMINGO I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place... CHARLES MINGUS JAN KARON DRAKE DANIEL DAY-LEWIS 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's ju... RANDALL PARK One of the things I'm trying to get better at is apologizing when I make mistakes. That's be... EVAN SPIEGEL KIP MOORE CANDACE BUSHNELL It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ... EMILY ROBISON My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get i... SAFFRON BURROWS SIDNEY CROSBY One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There&#... MARGARET CHO When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because ... TOBY KEBBELL EDGAR BRONFMAN, JR. JODI PICOULT FATEMA MERNISSI I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed abo... NTOZAKE SHANGE CEELO GREEN SAM SMITH I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all ma... CASEY ABRAMS AARON NEVILLE I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but w... EMILY BROWNING I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. I... IAN RANKIN People ask me all the time which I would prefer doing more, but I honestly can't say. When I'... CASSIE STEELE ELMORE LEONARD I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I... MADDIE ZIEGLER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON TONY DUNGY I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do... HAROLD SIMMONS JACKIE EVANCHO AARON SORKIN For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When yo... NESTOR CARBONELL GRAHAM SWIFT Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendous... MAX LANDIS DAVID COOK LANCE GROSS I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d... UMBERTO ECO I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ... NAOMI SCOTT ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC TOM STOPPARD ASTRO LIL REL HOWERY DONALD MILLER I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only... SHERILYN FENN I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &... FEFE DOBSON ZACH GALIFIANAKIS THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA ... STEPHEN CURRY My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's li... MAIWENN BILL CONTI MIRANDA JULY There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm comp... CYNTHIA ERIVO If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that... OZWALD BOATENG CHRISTOPHER MELONI The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually ... ALEXI ZENTNER MARTHA GRAHAM STUDS TERKEL
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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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The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b... 
I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of... 
The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acq... 
I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and b... 
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful... 
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some oth... 
I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look dow... 
The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I ju... 
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of pr... 
Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm prac... 
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ... 
I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to ... 
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier t... 
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. 
When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well ... 
I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going thro... 
Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... 
Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad... 
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This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's ... 
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... 
When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's a... 
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The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It... 
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There's one thing I know for sure: When I'm most opinionated, my writing sucks. 
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no a...