Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Everyone was becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old.
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When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
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Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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Everyone was becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old.
