Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Life can be hard. I know how hard it can be.” And then she said, “Déjate querer.” Let yourself be loved.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I've been on a tweeting mission.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
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If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.
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Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of Night,Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikesThe Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.
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Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then. I’ll give it to my family, I’ll give it to my work - but I will not give it to a man right now.
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I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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If anything, I want to please people too much.
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Life can be hard. I know how hard it can be.” And then she said, “Déjate querer.” Let yourself be loved.
