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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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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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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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.
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I don't really play a lot of games.
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There are worse things in the world than a boy who likes to kiss other boys.
