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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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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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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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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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
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It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
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We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
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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.
