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I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.

Benjamin Clementine

If I’m being forced to do something I don’t want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I’m aware of it, no matter what happens, I’m always going to have a fake self and I’m not going to judge my fake self.
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Judging Matter Real Self Something
I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.
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Building Country Facts
I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn’t even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.
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Anymore Experience Independent Talk Write
Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
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Appreciate Believe Life Live
We have the real self and the false self, there’s nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.
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Everyone False Nothing Real Self
I have met a few people, who are so respected in the fashion industry and all around the world, and are still very humble. People who have it all but act like they only just started, it’s beautiful. This is what I want to be.
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Beautiful Fashion Humble
I’m not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
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Changed Gentrification Prostitute Stop
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn’t quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.
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Favorite Musician Poet Sound
I loved English literature – if didn’t it would have been hard – but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.
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Lines Literature Way
When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it’s because you haven’t had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.
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Character Fake Parent Protect Self
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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Difficult Down Things Writing
I’m from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn’t really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.
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Class Father Running
In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, “Don’t stop, keep going.”
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Facts People Race
Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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Happiness Justify Money Overrated
[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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Fashion Music Opposites
I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It’s amazing how we go to school when we’re so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don’t have to memorize anything.
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Book School Understanding

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