Jemaine Clement Quotes
I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.
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I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
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I don't crave Hollywood.
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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
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I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
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It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.
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If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
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I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.
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The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?
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I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.
