Jemaine Clement Quotes

They don't get along with me, but I get along with other people.

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• People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Reality

• The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Moment

• When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Long
  • Remember

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Thought
  • Better

• No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Sick

• People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Job
  • Government

• I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • People
  • Love
  • Today

• There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
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  • Want
  • Evil

• I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Up
  • Value

• I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I can't believe that I was one of those people who said 'I'm not really a sci-fi fan.'

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Believe
  • Said

• Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Real
  • Giving

• I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Character
  • Me

• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Daily
  • motivation

• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • America
  • Fear

• A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • People
  • Business
  • Future

• I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be.

  

  Jeff Abbott
  • Done
  • Emotional
  • Improvement

• Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body. It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?

  

  Hutton Gibson
  • Guy
  • Dead
  • Petrol

• They don't get along with me, but I get along with other people.

  

  Jemaine Clement
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