Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.Benjamin Alire Saenz
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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.
Xavier Dolan -
Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
Maluma -
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
Kanye West -
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.
Kaskade -
Women artists are still treated differently from men.
Yoko Ono -
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.
Gayle Forman
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The more far-out artists, the better.
Gary Wright -
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.
Forest Whitaker -
I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
Hansika Motwani -
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.
Jack Bowman -
My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.
Kat Graham -
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.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
Patrick Ness -
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?
Alan Rickman -
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.
Alan Rickman -
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.
Amy Poehler -
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Oscar Wilde -
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
Oscar Wilde
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Yeah, it's an origin story. But you very quickly get into the origin and then it's off to the races. It is an origin story, certainly, but it's not like the movie ends and somebody stretches. It happens pretty quickly and I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say about it, but I think when people see that first hint, they'll be pretty excited about it.
Nicholas Stoller -
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Why do these big old country houses always have family portraits in the dining room? Do you really want to eat with someone's gloomy great-grandfather looking down on you?
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
Benjamin Alire Saenz