Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I came to you one rainless August night. You taught me how to live without the rain. You are thirst and thirst is all I know. You are sand, wind, sun, and burning sky, The hottest blue. You blow a breeze and brand Your breath into my mouth. You reach—then bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. You wrap your name tight around my ribs And keep me warm. I was born for you. Above, below, by you, by you surrounded. I wake to you at dawn. Never break your Knot. Reach, rise, blow, Sálvame, mi dios, Trágame, mi tierra. Salva, traga, Break me, I am bread. I will be the water for your thirst.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.
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Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.
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Whether you're tall and you play a basketball player, or overweight and you play somebody who is dealing with the issues behind the weight, we all have to pull from real life to make those performances authentic.
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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
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But if they didn't think it was a joke, or if anybody took it the wrong way other than a joke, when you make a mistake like that, you've got to apologize. So I apologize to anybody that might have taken it the other way.
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I came to you one rainless August night. You taught me how to live without the rain. You are thirst and thirst is all I know. You are sand, wind, sun, and burning sky, The hottest blue. You blow a breeze and brand Your breath into my mouth. You reach—then bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. You wrap your name tight around my ribs And keep me warm. I was born for you. Above, below, by you, by you surrounded. I wake to you at dawn. Never break your Knot. Reach, rise, blow, Sálvame, mi dios, Trágame, mi tierra. Salva, traga, Break me, I am bread. I will be the water for your thirst.
