Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It’s an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don’t see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.

  

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• Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.

  

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• I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

  

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• I don't believe in miracles.

  

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• I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.

  

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• Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.

  

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• I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

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• I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'

  

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• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

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• In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.

  

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  • Believe
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  • Friend

• I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

  

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• I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.

  

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• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

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• One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

  

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• My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.

  

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• Let me just say, as I've gotten older, the parts have gotten better.

  

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• When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

  

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  • Wish
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• Certainly, there's a possibility of an amendment, that's something we're looking at.

  

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• For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

  

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• Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It’s an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don’t see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Vision
  • Behavior
  • Isolate