Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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I can paint in jail.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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I'm a hopeless romantic.
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What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing.
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Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!
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If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
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I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.
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You'd really spend about a hundred dollars for fake testicles for your cat? I'm not sure I'd spend that for fake testicles for myself.
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I never thought that I would have love again, but it's amazing how the universe brings love to you.
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Do you think we’ll ever discover all the secrets of the universe?
