Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.
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I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
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I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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If the end of one mercy were not the beginning of another, we were undone.
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I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger.
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Timing has a lot to with art.
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There’s always a but when you’re losing an argument.
