Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
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I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.
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The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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'FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
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If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
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In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
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The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
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The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.
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When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.
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Smiles are like that. They come and go.
