Junot Diaz Quotes

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 31, 1968

Topics

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Top technologists have a tremendous capacity - and, therefore, a tremendous responsibility - to build things that make a positive impact on the world.

Joe Lonsdale

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I'm not friends with a lot of my exes, and I think there's a reason for that.

Andrew Rannells

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When my mom turned 91, I wanted to use the time that we have left in our lives to get to know each other as adults.

Anderson Cooper

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Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests.

Andy Stern

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I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.

Jeff Ament

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My siblings are my best friends.

America Ferrera

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I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.

John Singleton

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I'm just very grateful that the media has been so kind to me, because there's nothing unusual about me. I'm just a mum and a granny who is teaching cookery on TV. Basically, I'm very ordinary.

Mary Berry

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I didn't know anything about the Angels when I first got there. But they really are a good organization.

Mike Trout

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You know what ends up on the markdown racks? All the weird colors. Guys don't wear orange or citron.

Mickey Drexler

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There was a time when Vader and I had a main event Pay-Per-View match, back in 1993 at Halloween Havoc, and I firmly thought that it was going to be the biggest match of my career and that everything after would just be going downhill.

Mick Foley

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I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

Jay Kay

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