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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Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write about that? And what does it say about you?'
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I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.
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I don't have any weird night rituals. I definitely am a ritualistic person... I like to go downstairs and remind my roommate-drummer not to practice early the next morning, so I can sleep in.
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When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.
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This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
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I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.
