Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
He looked so happy and I wondered about that, his capacity for happiness. Where did that come from? Did I have that kind of happiness inside me? Was I just afraid of it?
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.
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I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.
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The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
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Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I've heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There's sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.
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Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.
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I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.
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I’ve been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It’s better than the Inquisition. Usually.
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I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.
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When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.
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But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.
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I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.
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I believe in the redemptive need to admit mistakes, express regret, and ask for forgiveness.
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Pity is treason.
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I get up very early and write a lot.
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I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.
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Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.
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I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
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I'm happy to keep making Disney movies.
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He looked so happy and I wondered about that, his capacity for happiness. Where did that come from? Did I have that kind of happiness inside me? Was I just afraid of it?
