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Quotes by New-zealander Authors
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
"I am my own Universe, I my own Professor."
"By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life."
"New Zealand is not a small country but a large village."
"Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition."
"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
"Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view."
"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."
"Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers."
"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."
"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."
"Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe."
"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."
"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."
"Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it."
"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."
"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."
"I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man."
"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."
"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"
"It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it."
"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there."
"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
"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."
"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."
"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
"I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books."
"We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that."
"Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance."
"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."
"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."
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