Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
His sadness was unbearable to watch. Far worse than his rage. He looked so defeated in that sorrow—like he was surrendering, like the battle was too much.
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We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
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I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.
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For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.
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There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.
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I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them.
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Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.
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My hobbies are run-on sentences.
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Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.
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Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt
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His sadness was unbearable to watch. Far worse than his rage. He looked so defeated in that sorrow—like he was surrendering, like the battle was too much.
