Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
And even me who did know them. I—I hated being loved by them. But I couldn’t run. I couldn’t. It is useless to run from a storm. So I stayed. I know about storms as well as anyone.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
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We women are fools to do so much for the man we love. And we forget to stand for ourselves.
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The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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And even me who did know them. I—I hated being loved by them. But I couldn’t run. I couldn’t. It is useless to run from a storm. So I stayed. I know about storms as well as anyone.
