Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
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If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.
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It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
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I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
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I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'
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An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.
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The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.
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I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.
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I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly.
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Once I had wondered what it would be like to be an adult. I thought, like all children, that adulthood was accompanied by esoteric secrets, complicated insights, mysteriously acquired skills. But it turned out to be very simple: you were exactly the same, you were still a child, but you had to find a way to look after yourself.
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Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.
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As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.
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If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
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That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.
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People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.
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I'm the world heavyweight champion. I consider myself a citizen of the whole world.
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Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.
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Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.
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You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult.
