Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
It all happened in an instant, like a flash of lightning, only the lightning wasn’t coming from the sky, it was coming from somewhere inside of me.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
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There's footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you're supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
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I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.
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I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
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One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.
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So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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It all happened in an instant, like a flash of lightning, only the lightning wasn’t coming from the sky, it was coming from somewhere inside of me.
