Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I lived in pain because I chose to live in pain. Somewhere along the line, I fell in love with the idea of tragedy, the idea that I was destined to live a tragic life. I had this romantic idea about the life of a writer and what he was supposed to suffer. Somehow I made my own pain a kind of god.
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.
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I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.
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'Take Shelter' is a tough movie because there's no humor in it, so there's really no way to judge how you're doing - whether people are still with you or not.
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A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
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When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.
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I lived in pain because I chose to live in pain. Somewhere along the line, I fell in love with the idea of tragedy, the idea that I was destined to live a tragic life. I had this romantic idea about the life of a writer and what he was supposed to suffer. Somehow I made my own pain a kind of god.
