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Quotes by New-zealander Authors
"All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished."
"Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition."
"New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries."
"Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description."
"Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule."
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
"Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her."
"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."
"Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day."
"Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood."
"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."
"What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."
"They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood."
"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
"I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio."
"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."
"Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much."
"The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world."
"Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments."
"From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth."
"Eyes narrowed, Judd stared at the structure as if at a mortal enemy. Slapping his fellow lieutenant on the shoulder, Riaz said, "Don't even think about it." A pissed-off telekinetic versus the complex metal pylons and tubes of the jungle gym- the results would not be pretty.Judd glanced at his watch. "I'll destroy it later."
"There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti."
"Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion."
"New Zealand is not a small country but a large village."
"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"
"It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most."
"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."
"Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it."
"I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly."
"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 like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?"
"The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is."
"The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay."
"Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination."
"She blew out a breath between gritted teeth. "Sometimes I really want to-a frustrated sound-"bite you! He froze. "I might let you. "I won't do it if you'd enjoy it."
"My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer."
"I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face."
"I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man."
"We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people."
"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."
"We all have to live with our past, but it doesn't have to define us."
"God, you're sexy when you talk Psy."
"Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users."
"There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability."
"I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions."
"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
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