Benjamin Clementine Quotes
People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well that I'm not normal when I'm performing.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.
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Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.
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People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well that I'm not normal when I'm performing.
