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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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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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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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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Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not wish to pay it, we must give up the empire.
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An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.
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You have antiheroes in dramas, like Tony Soprano. But it's a little bit harder in comedy. You don't see it quite as much.
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I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.
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Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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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.
