Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
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I get to see the world and try to make people happy. I'm very much of a wandering spirit, if you'll pardon the expression.
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Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
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What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.
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Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you-whatever makes you most you.
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Change is overrated.
