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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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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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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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
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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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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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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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The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
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With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
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I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.
