Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much. Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn't control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could.
Quotes to Explore
-
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
-
I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
-
I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
-
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
-
For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
-
It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
-
People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
-
My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
-
I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
-
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
-
We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
-
Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
-
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
-
Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.
-
For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.
-
Whether people want to do business or sell things online, reach new people and be found, showcase their achievements, or communicate with their friends or family, Weebly is the best way for them to create a high-quality site that meets their goals.
-
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
-
You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.
-
What I have found is that the best way to unwind is cooking. You only have two hands. If you are chopping veggies, you are forcing yourself to put the phone down or step away from the computer. It's extremely relaxing.
-
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
-
It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
-
Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much. Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn't control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could.
