Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
But what really bugged the living crap out of me was that my mother had more friends than I did. How saw was that?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
Hallie Ephron
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
Dacre Montgomery
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
Rachel Sklar
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You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.
Scarlett Thomas
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
Henry Kissinger
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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
Bear Grylls
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You put yourself on tape as an actor a lot - and you send them off, they go out into the ether, and you have no idea what's going to come back, or when.
Kelly Reilly
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But what really bugged the living crap out of me was that my mother had more friends than I did. How saw was that?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
