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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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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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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Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Her laugh was as fragile as the leaves she had raked when I was five.
