Benjamin Clementine Quotes
I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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People are going to say what they want to say.
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
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One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.
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I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.
