Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I ask her if she loves me and I always feel bad when I ask her that because it makes me sound so desperate. I ask and ask and ask.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Way
  • Thought
  • Hollywood

• Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • Food
  • Quality

• What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Always
  • Write
  • Some

• I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Song
  • Me
  • Singer

• I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Bitcoin
  • Blockchain
  • Wed

• The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Place

• I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Chair

• Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. 1

  

  Alan Watts
  • Church

• Michael patted him on the shoulder. “I like this plan,” he said. “You and Eve, picking up cake and flowers, and you can’t even say a word. Should be tons of fun.” Shane almost choked, and gave Michael a sideways glare. Michael sent him a hundred-watt smile in return—no fangs, which was probably for the best.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Smile

• The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Movie
  • Soul
  • Film

• We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Devil
  • Hell

• I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • John Kerry
  • Dilettante
  • Windsurfing

• Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.

  

  Yang Wanli
  • Words
  • Poetry

• Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.

  

  Zelig Pliskin
  • Life

• My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Time
  • Great
  • She

• I had just had a daughter, who was three or three-and-half years old, and I had been watching nothing but cartoons. That's really it. There was no YouTube. You're in France and you're raising a kid, so you break out the Tex Avery.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Daughter
  • YouTube
  • Cartoons

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Understanding
  • Being
  • Determination

• You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Hope
  • Understanding
  • Life After Death

• I ask her if she loves me and I always feel bad when I ask her that because it makes me sound so desperate. I ask and ask and ask.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Loves
  • Ask
  • Desperate