Junot Diaz Quotes

My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one of these kids. He's wrapped up in a red bullfighter's cape. And you've got to decide what we're gonna do with Superman.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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For me, it was always just taking the next opportunity to sing in front of someone and always trying to take those strides forward to find a place to sing, to make a music career. It was small increments, but I always knew that I had to take the next opportunity.

Jimi Westbrook

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So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

Joan Fontaine

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I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

Anatoly Chubais

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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

Anna Garlin Spencer

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School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

John Taylor Gatto

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My mom has the best style ever.

Amber Stevens

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While shooting for 'Kodi' at Pollachi, I got this new idea for 'VIP 2'.

Dhanush

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I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

Brian Helgeland

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As a viewer, I really want to watch author-backed stories, and there is something amazing about thrillers, the way it captivates your imagination.

Anushka Sharma

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There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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