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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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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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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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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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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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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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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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
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There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.
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Reason alone does not suffice.
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We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.
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There's always rhythm going in my mind. … I'm either singing them - June will tell you, I'm either singing them, or I have got the beat going from one, or I'm writing one.
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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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Girl, you don't know what you're puttin' through. It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you.
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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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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.
