Benjamin Clementine Quotes
When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.
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The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead.
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I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.
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My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
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When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.
