Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for —W. S. Merwin
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India's participation.
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You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
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If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
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I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
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I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.
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Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for —W. S. Merwin
