Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
She sounded a little angry. I loved her anger and wished I had more of it. Her anger was different than mine or my father’s. Her anger didn’t paralyze her.
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There is always pressure in football.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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WWE doesn't owe us anything.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.
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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
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We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.
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I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!
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Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.
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I always say this: 'In life, truth is on your side.'
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My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.
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When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.
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She sounded a little angry. I loved her anger and wished I had more of it. Her anger was different than mine or my father’s. Her anger didn’t paralyze her.
