Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I think I was trying to make my life uncomplicated because everything inside of me was so confusing.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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I have no guitar technique.
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My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
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I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all these people set in 1666, what I was so interested in was the New Science.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.
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I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.
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I think I was trying to make my life uncomplicated because everything inside of me was so confusing.
