Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
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The more far-out artists, the better.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.
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I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
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My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.
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I get inspiration from all kinds of things: I can get it from hanging out with my son, from hanging out with my wife, from checking out different artists, from hearing something at a party.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.
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My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry her off is only an "artists projection" to when she's 85 and out of the convent!
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We should not rely on our feelings; we had to walk by faith and not by sight. If we preserve in the Lord, we always succeed.
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The lockdown brought memories of the once serene Abuja city of the early nineties. Then it was sweet, now it is disturbingly quiet. People aren’t able to fetch daily bread.May Allah forgive us our sins and ease it for us.
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Do you mean am I worried about people seeing me with my jeans off? Sure. Sometimes people are overcome. They fall down. They hit their heads. It's worrying.
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The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
