Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Why did people think they could be alone? Everyone you loved or hated or touched or who made you tremble or bruised you—they were always there, ready to enter and take over the room. It didn’t matter at all if you opened the door or not. They came rushing in. They knew the way, knew how to make themselves at home.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.
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When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, 'Wow! Everything must be great!' Well, everything isn't always great. You can be hailed on the street corner, but you still have to go home and take out the garbage.
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'I got home at last and crawled into bed next to my girlfriend. I told her I'd had an epiphany that night about using stencils and she told me to stop taking that drug 'cos it's bad for your heart.'
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I was in the playground, like, 'Let's imitate the Spice Girls and form a girl group!' I would go home and sing into my hairbrush and act like Britney Spears. I was no Mozart.
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Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
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Why did people think they could be alone? Everyone you loved or hated or touched or who made you tremble or bruised you—they were always there, ready to enter and take over the room. It didn’t matter at all if you opened the door or not. They came rushing in. They knew the way, knew how to make themselves at home.
