Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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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.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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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.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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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.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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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.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.
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American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
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I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.
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In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.
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Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
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There's a burden of responsibility for me to show up correct - in my head, if I don't do it right, then I'll get shut out, and then other trans women of color will be shut out.
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Patience is a gift you have to work for.
