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Junot Diaz Quotes

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Person Dictatorship Always Being

My experience of children on a film set, especially on a big film set like the 'Potter' one, is not wholly positive.

Positive Children Experience Big Set

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

Melina Mercouri

War Friends Blood Soil Protect

All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

You See Noise Beatles Just Hear

For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months or years and figure it out. But now, you don't have to do that; you don't have to be alone in the room anymore.

Alone Writing Long You Now Out

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

Rodney Dangerfield

Wife Happy Years Met Then Were

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

Character Drama Heroes Core Elements

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Eyes Eye Hands Compass Hand Judges

Telling kids the truth isn't always entirely possible, but talking to them is.

Truth Talking Possible Always Kids

I look like that in the morning: my hair's all greasy - it's not, 'Hey, look at the babe of the band!' I hate that kind of thing, the way women are always pushed forward as beauties... it's very easy: you can make the ugliest pig look lovely in a photograph.

Dolores O'Riordan

Women Morning Hate Hair Forward Pig

We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them.

God People See Industry Us Aware

I don't hate anyone. Sometimes I wish I could interact with the community in a more normal way, though.

Christopher Poole

Community Hate Wish Sometimes Way

I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves.

Christopher Priest

Truth Think Search Trying Writer

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