Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn’t say it, because I wasn’t sure it was true.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
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I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
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I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
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I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema would be funnier because it's collective, and it's crazy, and it's chaotic, and also because I was based in Spain. So I said it will be easy to make a career of that - because all the other filmmakers there are very bad. And it will be funny at the same time. So this was the point. It will be funnier, easier, and maybe at the end there will be some unknown beauty, and maybe on the way we'll create the dream that a different logic is possible for life.
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From there it got tough and Canby was very good on the free-throw line. But again, our kids played hard, left tired, but winning second was really nice for them.
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I feel like there's lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers than I am. But the space that I occupy of storytelling about finance and economics is - more people want it than can do it.
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Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn’t say it, because I wasn’t sure it was true.
