Junot Diaz Quotes

So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

When I moved to Schalke it took me a few months to settle.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

I was quite nervous in my first week at Barcelona, but after that, I was relaxed.

You always need a certain amount of time to fully adjust; it was no different when I moved to the Bundesliga.

London has become a real home.

Anytime you leave something you've done and where you've been for nearly a decade, it's going to be different.

I have adapted well in Liverpool.

We are comfortable in this environment. Why not make ourselves comfortable over there?.

I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.

That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.

Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting married and starting a family, that sort of thing.

I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

When you're picking up and moving, it does create... well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.

We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

I could easily make Nashville a permanent home.