Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
He was on fire, she could almost touch the rage. He could scare people. He could make anyone afraid, if he wanted to.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
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As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.
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Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.
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I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
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Reason alone does not suffice.
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.
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Once you start getting big roles as an actor, everything pays. So what are you making decisions on? It's about the director or the script or whatever. But before you reach that point, you're taking jobs with, say, a theater company, in spite of the fact that it's not paying your bills.
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In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.
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Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.
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Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.
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I was in the seventh grade when I first began to identify as trans and express my gender identity as a girl. My social transition began with growing my hair and wearing clothes and makeup that made me feel like Destiny's Fourth Child.
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I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.
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Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.
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When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen.
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My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
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He was on fire, she could almost touch the rage. He could scare people. He could make anyone afraid, if he wanted to.
