Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
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The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.
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In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
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Each man in his way is a treasure.
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I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to New York or Paris. But after that intense summer, I never thought that I wanted to live any place but Chicago. It also made me see what the stakes were in the civil rights movement. And it made me see what real hatred was like and the forms that it took. But it also made me understand how powerless ordinary people feel in their lives.
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I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.
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I loved the different rules of summer.
