Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Maybe life was just a series of phases—one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I’d be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards. Not that I really believed in my mom’s phase theory. It didn’t sound like an explanation—it sounded like an excuse. I don’t think my mom got the whole guy thing. I didn’t get the guy thing either. And I was a guy.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

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• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

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• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

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• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

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• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

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• You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

  

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• I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

  

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• Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

  

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• That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

  

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• Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

  

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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

  

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  • Human
  • Human being
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• Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

  

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• Maybe life was just a series of phases—one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I’d be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards. Not that I really believed in my mom’s phase theory. It didn’t sound like an explanation—it sounded like an excuse. I don’t think my mom got the whole guy thing. I didn’t get the guy thing either. And I was a guy.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Years
  • Theory
  • Believed