Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
But maybe there isn’t a logic behind the word family. The truth is, it isn’t always such a good word.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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And that's the way it is.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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The fan support was the greatest. It's everything.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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I love men's wear.
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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.
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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
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I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.
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It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be.
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The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!
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To be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous.
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
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Now that I look back, all the things that I was teased about, became game changers and my strengths. That's what we have to learn as mothers. We push our children so much to be perfect, but it's their imperfections that make them unique.
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But maybe there isn’t a logic behind the word family. The truth is, it isn’t always such a good word.
