Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.
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Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
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Film is a collective experience, as you know.
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It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.
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I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.
