Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
Garry Shandling -
I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
Tamsin Greig -
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar -
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
Edmund White -
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Maggie Smith -
My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
Daniel Baldwin
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Beatrice Wood -
For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
Najib Razak -
I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Victor Kiam -
I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
Taylor Schilling -
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
Vera Wang
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There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.
Harold Prince -
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
Edgar Cayce -
I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.
Linus Torvalds -
Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…
Benito Mussolini -
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
Alvin Toffler
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The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.
Chip Conley -
The beauty of jazz is that it can accommodate all styles. You can take jazz and put rock in it, and it's still jazz.
Jon Batiste -
Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
Elfriede Jelinek -
I love songwriting ! It's my Number One passion other than performing. Well, actually it's like wearing three different hats: songwriting, recording and performing. They're all completely different and draw on different types of skills. With recording, there are so many different phases of production, and you have to be very careful because you can polish it until it doesn't shine.
Delbert McClinton -
Words were different when they lived inside of you.
Benjamin Alire Saenz