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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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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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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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.
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Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!
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It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
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Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.
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I think I was trying to make my life uncomplicated because everything inside of me was so confusing.
