Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I told you that there were only two things you needed to learn in life. You needed to learn how to forgive. And you needed to learn how to be happy.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
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When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.
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It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
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To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.
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I told you that there were only two things you needed to learn in life. You needed to learn how to forgive. And you needed to learn how to be happy.
