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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I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
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There is no such thing as free schooling; it must be paid for and, taking the school system as a whole, its cost is defrayed by the toil of those who are under the delusion of ‘free’ education.
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Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.
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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.
