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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
-
I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
-
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
-
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
-
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.
-
Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
-
I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
-
Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.
-
The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
-
I'm the slowest driver in the world.
-
I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.
-
When you are authentic, you create a certain energy... people want to be around you because you are unique.
-
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.
