Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
He said I was too sad a nd that some day I wouldn't be sad anymore – and maybe then I would let someone love me.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
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Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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He said I was too sad a nd that some day I wouldn't be sad anymore – and maybe then I would let someone love me.
