Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.
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Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
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No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.
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Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
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I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
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When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
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Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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I'll tell you one thing I learned from studying History, Kitty. As soon as you see your opponents are reduced to insulting you personally, you know you're on the way to victory.
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If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.
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It was better to be alone miserable. It was better to drown.