Benjamin Clementine Quotes

If I win the Mercury Prize, I'll be very honoured. If I don't win it, I won't have lost it. Someone else will have won it. And that will also be good.

Benjamin Clementine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 7, 1988

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I don't use recurring characters. I do get very interested in my characters while I'm working with them, and I find the process of fitting them into a story, and allowing them to create the story around themselves, fascinating. But no, I don't imagine they have a life outside of what I make for them.

Jessica Abel

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The name 'The Tig' comes from a wine called tignanello, and the first time I had a sip of this wine, it was such an 'aha' moment. I finally understood what people were talking about when they spoke about the body, the legs or structure of wine.

Meghan Markle

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I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

Robert Redford

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Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

Jeb Bush

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Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.

Mike Quigley

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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

Mika Waltari

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I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

Johnny Marr

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For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

Chris Hadfield

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According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.

Brendan I. Koerner

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I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Ashley Tisdale

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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.

Paul Watson

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I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

Shepard Fairey

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