Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Mima was like the tree. In this desert where I’d grown up, Mima had shaded me from the sun. She was a tree. How would I live without that tree?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Write

• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Violence
  • Movies
  • See

• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Realize
  • Secrets
  • Hidden

• I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Doing

• I've done a lot of things in my life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Done
  • My Life

• I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Trying

• What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Lost
  • Service
  • Clear

• As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Kind

• The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Nature
  • Practice
  • Service

• I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Pink
  • Shades

• 'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Fear

• Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Family
  • Poetry

• I advocate eating nutritious food (I'm a vegetarian), working out, being in top form mentally and physically.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Food

• She leaned into him to soak up his warmth. "You are so hot," she said. "It's about time you noticed," he teased.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Character
  • Night
  • Friday

• I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might be slightly embarrassed for a day, but then you just go your own way.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • God
  • Hurt
  • Critics

• Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Together

• Mima was like the tree. In this desert where I’d grown up, Mima had shaded me from the sun. She was a tree. How would I live without that tree?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Tree
  • Desert
  • Grown-Up