Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Don’t, amor. Te adoro. I’ve already lost a son. I’m not going to lose another. You’re not alone, Ari. I know it feels that way. But you’re not.” “How can you love me so much?” “How could I not love you? You’re the most beautiful boy in the world.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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Well, I can't figure out God.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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I use egg whites and an olive oil-based hair mask that deep-conditions the hair and adds incredible shine.
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My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
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There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.
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The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
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Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.
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Don’t, amor. Te adoro. I’ve already lost a son. I’m not going to lose another. You’re not alone, Ari. I know it feels that way. But you’re not.” “How can you love me so much?” “How could I not love you? You’re the most beautiful boy in the world.
