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 express myself the way I want. Sometimes, I know, I do put up posts that might be insensitive, but I am not someone who deletes a post. If my posts end up hurting people, I don't have any qualms apologising, and I have done that in the past.
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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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We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.
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When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.
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To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
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The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.
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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?
