Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Were you afraid Dad wouldn’t come back? I didn’t think about it. I made myself not think about it. I’m good at that.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
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I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
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There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.
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I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.
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I think Robbie Lawler is a good name and a fight that interests me.
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If China wants to spend $10 producing a product and sell it for a buck, who benefits from that? I think we do. I'm the free market guy. I think free markets work.
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I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.
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If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.
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That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
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Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.
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My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
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I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so.
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However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
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Were you afraid Dad wouldn’t come back? I didn’t think about it. I made myself not think about it. I’m good at that.
