Benjamin Clementine Quotes
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.
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Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.
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Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.
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In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
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I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog.
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It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.
