Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
That’s what his mother had told him, that Mexico tasted of maíz and the hands of the women who’d made tortillas for a thousand years.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
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I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.
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I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
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I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
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Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
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My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.
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The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma, with sharpness and sweetness, too.
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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
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That’s what his mother had told him, that Mexico tasted of maíz and the hands of the women who’d made tortillas for a thousand years.
