Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Dante and I were cursed with parents who cared. Why couldn't they just leave us alone? What ever happened to parents who were too busy or too selfish or just didn't give a shit about what their sons did?
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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Hey Uncle SamPut your name at the top of his listAnd the Statue of LibertyStarted shaking her fist.And the eagle will flyMan, it's gonna be hellWhen you hear Mother FreedomStart ringing her bellAnd it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on youBrought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue.
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People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?
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What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?
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I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world.
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There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
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I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.
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When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
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No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
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The English experience has greatly enriched me, and I'd like to carry on as manager.
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
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My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.
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My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.
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But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
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Dante and I were cursed with parents who cared. Why couldn't they just leave us alone? What ever happened to parents who were too busy or too selfish or just didn't give a shit about what their sons did?
