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Junot Diaz Quotes

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Day I Am Reading Person Kind Event

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

Journey War Action White Difficult

We simply can't spend our way out of a recession.

Way Out Recession Simply Our Spend

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

Time Best Job People Potential You

Sam Peckinpah's movies probably say more about him than anybody's body of work says about that person. There are running themes in his films that I find eminently fascinating, disturbing, exhausting, and exhilarating.

Work Body Find Person Say Movies

I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it.

People Me Famous Know Now Stuff

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.

City Comedy Know Chicago Far Knew

Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.

Me Doing Everything Stagnant Big

Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.

Society Literature Tragedy Out Which

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Best Do Your Best Regret You Will

I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.

Cute Myself I Am People Me Sexy

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

Love Mystery Hold Artists Prince

Nicki Minaj is definitely somebody that we love. She is such a powerful, strong woman, and she's so talented.

Love Woman Strong Powerful She

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