Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
He didn’t say anything. And then I heard him crying. So I just let him cry. There was nothing I could do. Except listen to his pain. I could do that. I could hardly stand it. But I could do that. Just listen to his pain.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
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I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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The khaleesi seems the most fair.
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I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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It's hard to get burned out on doing a TV show.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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This is an event of such horrifying, unimaginable proportions that I believe it is one where shock grows with time rather than diminishes.
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The best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend.
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Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
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If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school, and you're me, you go, 'Right - I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My confidence, it will terrify them.' That's how I felt in school.
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He didn’t say anything. And then I heard him crying. So I just let him cry. There was nothing I could do. Except listen to his pain. I could do that. I could hardly stand it. But I could do that. Just listen to his pain.
