Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.
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We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.
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I love men who make me laugh.
Nastassja Kinski -
I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
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All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.
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Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.
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She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
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The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.
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When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.
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War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
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Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
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With me, what you see is what you get.
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I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.
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Her laugh was as fragile as the leaves she had raked when I was five.
