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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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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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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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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Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
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Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it's pretty hard to feel them. You know, to look at their eyes on screen and feel them. I guess that's specifically talking about actors, but I think that's probably true in general. You want to keep your skin thin.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
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I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.
