Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.
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I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.
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You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?
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I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.
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This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.
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That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
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In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
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Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth.
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I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.
