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Junot Diaz Quotes

I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Practice People Interesting Down Go

At drama school, I was told, 'Lay off the chips, or you'll never play Juliet.' Sometimes, in the stock room of the set of 'Dinnerladies,' I'd put away three or four Mars bars while waiting for a scene. Then, at 24, I lost five stone.

Maxine Peake

School Waiting You Stone Drama Play

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Stephen Levine

Waiting Die You Phone Phone Call

I try to do anything I can to quicken things up.

Stefon Diggs

I Can Try Up Anything Things

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Robert Byrd

Constitution Fate Never Bitter Seen

It's so funny because, here in Hollywood, an actor who really is versatile and who has the ability to transform between comedy and drama roles is considered a rarity.

Rocky Carroll

Funny Comedy Drama Hollywood Actor

At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion?

Robert Wilson

Work New York Theatre Thought End

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Mo Yan

Loneliness Creation Hunger Were

We are in a struggle against the forces of radical Islam and terror, which must be defeated for our children and our grandchildren.

Michael McCaul

Children Struggle Grandchildren Islam

Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us wish we were rock stars anyway. For my part, I live in my iPod. The musicians there are my constant companions on the road.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Stars Live Road Musicians Wish Rock

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Joseph Conrad

Gossip Like Everybody Claims

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.

Pierre Loti

Vision Darkness Building Better True

I caught the U.S. Open a couple of times, but, man, I would love to catch Wimbledon and watch Nadal - he is the king of all kings.

Pusha T

Love Man King Kings Open Watch