Jemaine Clement Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
-
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
-
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
-
Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
-
I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
-
We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
-
I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
-
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
-
The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
-
Curvy is something to be proud of.
-
I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
-
I just love dancing.
-
I'm proud to have played characters who've inspired people to live out loud, and I'm lucky to have reached an audience that's been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.
-
The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.
-
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
-
One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
-
The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.
-
It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.
-
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
-
My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
-
One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.
-
My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.
-
The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.
