Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.
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I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.
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I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
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凡是敵人反對的，我們就要擁護；凡是敵人擁護的，我們就要反對。
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal.
