Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
When is the right time for anything? Who knows? Living is an art, not a science.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.
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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
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When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
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I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge.
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A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
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When is the right time for anything? Who knows? Living is an art, not a science.
