Jemaine Clement Quotes
I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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I come to win.
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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
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I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.
