Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
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I can clap with one hand.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.
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A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.
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So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
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Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.
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Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.
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Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.
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I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.
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I've noticed a lot of people are very bold and blustery on Twitter because it's easy to do that with the poison keyboard and a hundred and forty characters.
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It is really hard when you spend your life living out of a suitcase. But it really does weed out superficial people - if someone is still with you after the second movie, then they're probably a good one! I like to trust people in general - it's the southern girl in me.
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There's so many people that dislike you all the time, so when somebody loves anything that you do, you go 'Yes! Finally!' Even if it means the dyn-o-mite thing.
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I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.
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You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.
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I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.
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You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
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I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.
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'It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.'
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There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
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Yeah. Sometimes I was full of halfhearted yeahs.
