Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Maybe the river was made of our tears. Mine and Sam’s. Maybe the river was made of everybody’s tears. Everybody who had ever lost anybody. All those tears.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.
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Temi, Adso, i profeti e coloro disposti a morire per la verità, ché di solito fan morire moltissimo con loro, spesso prima di loro, talvolta al posto loro.
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MIRRORMENTBirds are flowers flyingand flowers perched birds.
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Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
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I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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In my orchestra, I hate slackness, idle talk and lost time. I always hated this and still hate it. But I can achieve much more when I am quiet and not shouting.
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A gun is not an argument.
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Maybe the river was made of our tears. Mine and Sam’s. Maybe the river was made of everybody’s tears. Everybody who had ever lost anybody. All those tears.
