Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Why did I have to be a good boy just because I had a bad-boy brother? I hated the way my mom and dad did family math.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I like to do Pilates.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
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Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
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She's an old soul. You will find her to be one of the more mature 23-year-olds on the planet.
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Why did I have to be a good boy just because I had a bad-boy brother? I hated the way my mom and dad did family math.
