Junot Diaz Quotes

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Originality is really important.

Jim Carrey

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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

Jim Courier

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My daughters all have aunties who help out. It takes a village.

Jodie Sweetin

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The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

Jill Lepore

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To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

Joel Edgerton

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It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

Andy Garcia

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If you are the coach of a national team, you have to evaluate players based on what they do on the pitch.

Mauro Icardi

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Tony Robbins

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Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

Rob Delaney

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I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood.

Rob Van Dam

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My mum's maiden name was Dalglish, so I have Scottish blood in me.

Rose Leslie

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The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.

Robert Zubrin

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