Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.
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Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.
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If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
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It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.
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I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.
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There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
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Sincere. You are. You take the world home with you every night.
