Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
My father decided he would read everything that I read. Maybe that was our way of talking.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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Our cast and crew strive for this show after show hard as they can. It shows in the finished product.
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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
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I'm OK: I don't need money.
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I never had time to dream about being anyone else.
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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
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We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.
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I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.
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You shoulda left the other day You let me beg for you to stay
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The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.
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Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.
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My father decided he would read everything that I read. Maybe that was our way of talking.
