Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.
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Very important to celebrate victories, however tiny, I always say.
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
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There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.
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Typically, I didn't know what to say so I didn't say anything.
