Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
You see, the thing with adults is that respect is just a word they use to guilt us nonadults into doing what they want us to do.Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock -
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
Orlando Bloom -
I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
Umberto Eco -
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
Vidya Balan
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I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
FKA twigs -
I am very much a Republican.
Laraine Day -
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
Abraham Cahan -
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
Iris Murdoch -
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
Adam Driver -
The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
D. B. Sweeney
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
Kate Bush -
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Hal Holbrook -
My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
Camila Alves -
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln -
Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
Ira Glass
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It's also wonderful to be back with my great friend and ally, Chancellor [Angela] Merkel. As I reflect back over the last eight years, I could not ask for a steadier or more reliable partner on the world stage, often through some very challenging times.
Barack Obama -
That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
Vince McMahon -
I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
Paris Jackson -
My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
Washed Out -
A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.
Tionne Watkins TLC -
You see, the thing with adults is that respect is just a word they use to guilt us nonadults into doing what they want us to do.
Benjamin Alire Saenz