Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
-
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
-
It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
-
I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
-
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
-
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
-
Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
-
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
-
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
-
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
-
And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
-
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
-
The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
-
I like the work that I get to do.
-
I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.
-
When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
-
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
-
'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.
-
As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.
-
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
-
Patience is a gift you have to work for.
