Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.
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Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
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Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
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The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.
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People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'
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I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.
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I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.
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When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
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Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.
