Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I'm going to say five years. I don't want to retire.
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I'm very lighthearted, outgoing, friendly, and funny, so I like to try new things.
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I just don't feel limited by genre.
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Lead by example. Women often wait for permission instead of acting, and I try to encourage bold action.
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I said yes too much. I said yes to certain projects that weren't for me. It was somebody else's vision and somebody else's dream and somebody else's artistic endeavor, but it didn't necessarily fit in my grand scheme.
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'Let the Bullets Fly' indeed attracted an audience, but how it did this is also a question for me.
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We're living in a time where I think most people are wanting someone to invite them respectfully to a policy position, not try to just slash and burn the other person.
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I love New York. I love L.A. too. I love both places.
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Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.
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I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
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It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.
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My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.
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At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.
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History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.
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When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
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I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.
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I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.
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I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.
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Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
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You’re such a school teacher.
