Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
When I looked through the telescope, Dante began explaining what I was looking at. I didn’t hear a word. Something happened inside me as I looked out into the vast universe. Through that telescope, the world was closer and larger than I’d ever imagined. And it was all so beautiful and overwhelming and—I don’t know—it made me aware that there was something inside of me that mattered.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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'Is there anyone in Chasm City she hasn’t deceived?''Possibly, somewhere, but only as an extreme theoretical possibility.'
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If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.
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The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
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As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.
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… that modern sect of Flagellants who make a ritual of lashing - not themselves but - all their neighbours.
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.
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When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
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When I looked through the telescope, Dante began explaining what I was looking at. I didn’t hear a word. Something happened inside me as I looked out into the vast universe. Through that telescope, the world was closer and larger than I’d ever imagined. And it was all so beautiful and overwhelming and—I don’t know—it made me aware that there was something inside of me that mattered.
