Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.
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You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'
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I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
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Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
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My birthmark essentially looks like I have a black eye. It isn't that bad, so you can imagine if it has been this big a part of my life, think of what it must be like for children with more serious birthmarks that cover half their face.
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I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.
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Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!
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My interest is in experience that is wordless and silent, and in the fact that this experience can be expressed for me in art work which is also wordless and silent.
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I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.
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When you're walking at the airport, you're expected to smile at people because they know you... I find that tough. I'm only trying to protect myself. So I don't take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it's actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it's a defense mechanism.
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We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.
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I worked odd jobs delivering pizza, folding chairs, telemarketing, selling kitchen cutlery door to door.
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The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.
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You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.
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I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?
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You were right! That whole aiming thing really does work!
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It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.
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I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet.
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My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.
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You belong everywhere you go. That’s just how you are.
