Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I guess life hurt everybody. I didn't understand the logic of this thing we called living. Maybe I wasn't supposed to.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.
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The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
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Just because I'm playing on the other team doesn't mean I'm this pathetic human being who's begging to be loved.
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I guess life hurt everybody. I didn't understand the logic of this thing we called living. Maybe I wasn't supposed to.
