Jemaine Clement Quotes
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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Every actor fears unemployment – even me.
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Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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To fall suddenly sick when you have never been ill is a hard lesson. If it teaches anything, it teaches you that you must not trust to the thing you know, that it is better to build on shifting sand than the rock which may confound you on the day it shatters.
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It is a wonderful but daunting task that has fallen on me to say few words by way of opening this Forum, the greatest concourse of women (joined by a few brave men!) that has ever gathered on our planet. I want to try and voice some of the common hopes which firmly unite us in all our splendid diversity.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.
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My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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I'm a real pawn-shopper.
