Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
But my father, the man who was in my room and had turned on the light, he’d raised me. He’d tamed me with all the love that lived inside him.
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.
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My first thought is always of light.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Free love sounds great.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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Basically, I want that relationship where we have that love. I love her so much, and she loves me so much that it's just - you want that relationship where you look into the girl's eyes, and you know that she's everything you've ever wanted. When I find that, I'm going to get it!
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I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
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I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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I love working closely with people.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
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No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
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I think there's a lot of different kinds of love: not just between a boyfriend and girlfriend, but love with your family, love with the people around you. I think that's really important and, I think, would really be a good thing for the world and make a better world for everybody.
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A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
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I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.
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My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader.
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But my father, the man who was in my room and had turned on the light, he’d raised me. He’d tamed me with all the love that lived inside him.
