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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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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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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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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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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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
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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.
