Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I loved her for her silence. Or maybe I just understood it. And loved my father too, for the careful way he spoke. I came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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I have much greater faith in the governor and the state legislature to craft a Medicaid system that is going to be the best fit for the people of Georgia rather than someone in Washington dictating it.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
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I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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You can't be disappointed unless you try something to be disappointed over.
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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
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It really is that easy. I can say no. I can tell him I have a problem, and it becomes just a…thing. An obstacle. Something I can attack. It was only silence that made it insurmountable.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. - The judge.
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I loved her for her silence. Or maybe I just understood it. And loved my father too, for the careful way he spoke. I came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.
