Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
Karen DeCrow
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
Yann Martel
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If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
Lady Gaga
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
Oren Peli
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
J. B. Smoove
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
A. A. Milne
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We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.
E. W. Howe
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.
J. D. Salinger
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
Octavia E. Butler
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My rubber burnin, turnin corners beatin like a CongoYou try to jack and pull the strap, it's ASAP prontoThe King of the South, every hood's head honchoI'm West Side certified, go where the fuck I wanna go.
T.I.
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I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.
Cherie Lunghi
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I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.
Bella Freud
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Everything I see, I now see through a mother's eyes.
Jennifer Hudson
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In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
Armstrong Williams
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The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in tears because she had mistakenly called her boss by another coworker's name. 'You know how it is,' my father said, 'they all look the same. It's not your mom's fault. There's just no telling them apart. Same high nose and deep-set eyes.'
Jenny Zhang
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I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
