Jemaine Clement Quotes
The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.
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I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'
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Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
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I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.
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But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
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Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.
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It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
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The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.
