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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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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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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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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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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Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.
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I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.
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There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.
