Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I knew why people were afraid of the future. Because the future wasn’t going to look like the past. That was really scary.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.
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But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.
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I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me.
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To hope is to contradict the future.
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I knew why people were afraid of the future. Because the future wasn’t going to look like the past. That was really scary.
