Jemaine Clement Quotes
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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It's such a delicate business, the structure of film, isn't it? What happens if a scene is not there but two minutes later? It's an eternal, never-ending search, actually, which is very exciting. It really is.
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I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.
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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
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'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.
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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.
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It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.
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There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness.
