Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs is a big flop.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.
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I adore burgers. I know they are bad for me, and only technically a sandwich, but a well made burger, juicy and hot off the grill, is wonderful!
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I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.
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And as I said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful.
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The Sabbath is not simply a time to rest, to recuperate. We should look at our work from the outside, not just from within.
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Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.
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I don't know if I'd ever sing a whole album because I don't know if I'd want to hear my voice for more than three or four songs.
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The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.
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I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough to play the lead.
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I was with Robert Preston in 'Sly Fox.'
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Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.
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Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.
