Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I was fifteen. I was bored. I was miserable.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Me
  • Look
  • Everything

• When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Down
  • Phone
  • Mechanic

• There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Music
  • Best

• Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Educational
  • Facilities

• No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Let your children go if you want to keep them.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Children
  • Want
  • You

• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • School
  • High
  • Problems

• Feminism is alienating women from their own bodies … because they don’t understand that they have something that men want, okay? So they’re encouraged to interpret all male lust as oppressive and victimizing and negative, instead of seeing that it is up to them to husband this flame. They have a flame, and it’s enormously powerful…

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Jede Äußerung menschlichen Geisteslebens kann als eine Art der Sprache aufgefaßt werden, und diese Auffassung erschließt nach Art einer wahrhaften Methode überall neue Fragestellungen.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art

• 'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Power
  • Father
  • Society

• It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Feeling
  • Dating

• We're real fortunate to have such a unique cast.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Real
  • Unique

• No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Popular

• At any age, we struggle with intimacy. When you're a kid, you think, 'I won't have that problem. I'll have sex whenever I want when I'm a grown-up!' And then, somehow, it doesn't quite turn out that way, and it's so surprising to people that connection remains so challenging even when you're married.

  

  David Frankel
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Small

• Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

  

  David Korten
  • Money

• If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

  

  Dean Karnazes

• I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Doing

• We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Work
  • May

• Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.

  

  Chris Bachelder
  • Together
  • Feelings
  • Emotion

• I was fifteen. I was bored. I was miserable.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Bored
  • Miserable