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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.

Benjamin Clementine

I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we’re from this universe. We’re not just New York or London; we’re stars.
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Character Country Earth Stars
Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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Human People Thinking
That’s how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.
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Firsts Like Poem Trying Writing
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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Diaries People Writing
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 look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
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Judging Media People
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
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
[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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Fashion Music Opposites
You can’t judge people by their cover.
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Cover Judging People
Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that’s fine, because their fake self is also part of them.
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People Real Self Some
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
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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Convert Itself Lucky Music
Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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Happiness Justify Money Overrated
The real self is who you are when you’re at home, when you’re comfortable, and the false self is what you’re pretending – and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you’re within.
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Character Home Real Reason Surround
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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Lucky Way Writing

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