I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINESome people will never be able to get their real self, but that’s fine, because their fake self is also part of them.
More Benjamin Clementine Quotes
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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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You can’t judge people by their cover.
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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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Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man.
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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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We’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.
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I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
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I wasn’t quite used to writing a diary – I didn’t understand why people did it – but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.
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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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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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Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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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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When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
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When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn’t sing; they only spoke.
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