Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
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I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.
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I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
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I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'
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That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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People follow proven formulas in any business.
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I always knew I was going to be a mommy, and because I came from a family of three kids, I always assumed I would have three!
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The future of American film lies on television.
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I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.
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The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.
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Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.)
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People are scared man, they're scared of the void.
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The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.
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I want to live in the calmness of the morning light.
