Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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People hate searching.
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One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
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The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.
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They need a new community on higher ground.
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Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
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Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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It would be a fool's mission to go in and say, 'I have it; now I'm going to go in and change it. The minute you open that entitlement up, you're back to ground zero, and the Navy is not going to be tolerant of that.
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[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.
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Searching for precious goods leads astray.
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Something was different since even before I can remember. I was always enthralled with things the girls were doing. Whenever my parents were gone, I would experiment with my mother's makeup. And wondered why I enjoyed doing that Wondered why I couldn't carry a purse.
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I threw my mouthpiece at the ground. Looking at it on TV, I could see how Joey would think I was throwing it at him.
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As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves.
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How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
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We don't spend every day of every week with these horses. We have to fly around to different locations juggling the horses.
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When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.
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The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.
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I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled.
