Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Sometimes I think my father has all these scars. On his heart. In his head. All over. It’s not such an easy thing to be the son of a man who’s been to war.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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Only a fool can't be fooled.
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The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
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Ed Grimley lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.
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I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.
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My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.
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As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.
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Sometimes I think my father has all these scars. On his heart. In his head. All over. It’s not such an easy thing to be the son of a man who’s been to war.
