Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting someone down. I mean the kind of laughing that means you've just discovered something really beautiful.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.
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Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
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I believe in saying 'yes.' I love to work, and I always believe that the schedule can work out if everything is willing to allow it to work out.
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Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.
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I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
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Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.
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It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting someone down. I mean the kind of laughing that means you've just discovered something really beautiful.
