Junot Diaz Quotes

To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeOutsiderFailSeemJustLike

The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.

Andrew Lansley

LifeCulturePeopleMovingSmoking

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.

Robert Novak

NobodyAdministrationColumnRejected

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Ang Lee

LifeSonMoneyMy LifeTryHospital

I'm sort of a negative guy.

Stan Van Gundy

NegativeGuySort

We are a company that can actually manufacture cars.

Robby Gordon

CompanyActuallyManufacture

There are a lot of actors out there who are able to engage with something in themselves which isn't necessarily their brain. But personally I find it very intellectually satisfying: doing your research and then burrowing as deeply into character as you can. I'm a naturally inquisitive person, too, and acting does feed into that.

Rory Kinnear

CharacterResearchBrainDoingYou

Every movie that I've picked, from my first film on, has been considered by everyone to be 'career suicide.' And I have an amazing life. I have an amazing career. I work with artists. But I'm not making 'Spider-Man.'

Michael Pitt

LifeWorkAmazingSuicideCareer

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Michael Scheuer

SignificantTangledVeryIraq

Everyone's seen the Beatles.

Dhani Harrison

EveryoneSeenBeatles

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

Clifford Geertz

PeopleWantAlwaysThingsAgainst

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Wilson Mizner

PersonDramaHimSurprisesCritic

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

Philipp Meyer

SchoolBicycleMechanicGoTrauma

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