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Quotes by New-zealander Authors
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
"Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much."
"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
"I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?"
"Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"
"Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view."
"There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti."
"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 Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries."
"Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her."
"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
"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."
"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 did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen."
"New Zealand is not a small country but a large village."
"We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!"
"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."
"When I teach people, I marry them."
"I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel."
"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."
"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."
"It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it."
"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."
"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."
"Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users."
"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."
"Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it."
"I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man."
"Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance."
"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 see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well."
"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher."
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