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Quotes by New-zealander Authors
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
"It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times."
"I am my own Universe, I my own Professor."
"We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction."
"Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view."
"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
"Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition."
"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
"There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters."
"The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit."
"I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man."
"Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much."
"New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries."
"The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region."
"I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant."
"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
"I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people."
"There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability."
"Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it."
"It is a little weird now, going over to Heath's place. It's like, 'Hi Heath, hi Nomes.' Very strange!"
"No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out."
"I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby."
"We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!"
"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher."
"I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free."
"I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up."
"It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
"That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something."
"With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated."
"When I teach people, I marry them."
"My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim."
"What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."
"There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti."
"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there."
"The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible."
"We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels."
"People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive."
"Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself."
"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change."
"The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002."
"We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world."
"On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object."
"Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel."
"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order."
"In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew."
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