Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
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Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
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I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.
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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
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I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
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I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid and was always doing bits for my friends and family. I remember doing pratfalls on the playground in fourth grade for my friend and really hurting my hip.
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In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.
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You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now.
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Winning titles, that's what I'm looking for.
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My congressional record speaks for itself, and my ability to build coalitions locally, nationally and across the aisles in Congress is transparent.
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Words were not things you could control. Not always.
