Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
Nancy Kress -
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
Kajal Aggarwal
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
Dani Shapiro -
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes -
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
Hans Rosling -
If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
Randy Weber
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In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
Zach Braff -
I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
Imelda May -
Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
Farrah Fawcett -
I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
Rachel Bilson -
Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
Rani Mukerji -
When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
Adam Lambert
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I fight fairly, and in good faith.
Edmond About -
I grew up in a very large, poor family.
Florence Henderson -
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
George Eliot -
My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
Dan Jenkins -
We all fight our own private wars.
Benjamin Alire Saenz