Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
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Back in Nebraska, I was known as the fat model - the girl who was pretty for a big girl. My body, like my confidence, has been picked apart, manipulated, and controlled by others who didn't necessarily understand it.
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Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.
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My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.
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The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he was doing it, and I mean, I've heard that guy's voice my whole life. When he was singing words I wrote, I started kind of choking up, but I tried to be all manly and puff my chest up and be all, 'Yeah, it's not a big deal.'
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You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.
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Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
