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Junot Diaz Quotes

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Reading You Kid Get Obsessed Really

No one would bring their horse into a studio, because they don't want to bring their prized animals into an environment where they wouldn't be comfortable or where they might panic and hurt themselves.

Hurt Environment Horse Animals Want

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

Doing Up Standing Because Like

I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Great Moment Me Better Rise Know

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

Good End Enjoy Person Nice Three

Higher asset prices increase wealth and, with a lag, induce higher spending.

Wealth Asset Prices Higher Lag

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

Men Man World Loss Dignity Living

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Product System Arts Liberal Arts

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

Good Me Friends Divorce Good Friends

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.

Michael Isikoff

Name Know Way Question Him Answer

MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.

Me Way Without Fine MTV Less

People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.

Chris Bohjalian

Family Friend Great People Me More

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Quality Comedy Kind Horror Real Got

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