Jemaine Clement Quotes
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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My record speaks for itself.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
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I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.
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We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.
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A hand cannot write on itself.
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Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
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I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.
