Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
You know, the thing about not talking very much is that people think you’re mature. They make things up about you.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
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Some people do believe that any publicity is good publicly, but I don't. I would never want to be in news for rumours.
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We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.
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I don't want to be a lead player. I don't want to shred and play fast licks. I just want to be the best rhythm section ever.
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relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
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You know, the thing about not talking very much is that people think you’re mature. They make things up about you.
