Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world.
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We each have the kind of children we deserve.
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Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away. Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap.
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Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
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There is no question that Villanova is the team that we most dread to play. I'm glad we were able to be victorious, because they really wear you out.
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If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.
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Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.
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I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.
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The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
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There's nothing ordinary about you. Nothing ordinary at all.
