Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Some people need sequins, others don't.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.
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It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.
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Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
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I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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I watched her hands as they worked the batter over with a wooden spoon. I wanted to kiss them.
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It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
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There are worse things in the world than a boy who likes to kiss other boys.
