Benjamin Clementine Quotes
With this sort of career, you need determination. You've got to sacrifice a lot of things: family, friends - not that I had any - but you sacrifice everything.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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I know I look super young.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.
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The last name is pronounced Jill-en-hall. It's spelled with two l's, two a's. We have a song in my family; G-Y-Double L - EN - HAAL spells Gyllenhaal. It's a Swedish name. It's a family heirloom set to music.
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I might be one of the very few people in this industry who doesn't have a 'me too' story.
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I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookout for bright boys and girls. It spotted me when I was 14, and I owe a tremendous debt to my alma mater.
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I'm very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that - no.
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With this sort of career, you need determination. You've got to sacrifice a lot of things: family, friends - not that I had any - but you sacrifice everything.
