Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming someone else. The really great thing about laughing was that it made me forget about the strange and awful feeling in my legs. Even if it was only for a minute.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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My hair is naturally blond and thin, so I like to give it some texture. Sexy, dirty bedhead is good for blonds.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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America is huge.
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It talked about the kind of man that he is and as a player you always want this kind of coach. You always dream to play for this kind of coach.
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The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you.
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I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.
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It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming someone else. The really great thing about laughing was that it made me forget about the strange and awful feeling in my legs. Even if it was only for a minute.
