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Quotes by New-zealander Authors
"So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
"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."
"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
"Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision."
"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher."
"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order."
"They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people."
"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."
"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."
"There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti."
"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there."
"We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!"
"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."
"Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy."
"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."
"I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup."
"It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby."
"Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view."
"It is a little weird now, going over to Heath's place. It's like, 'Hi Heath, hi Nomes.' Very strange!"
"It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?"
"It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's."
"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
"As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people."
"As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances."
"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change."
"Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'"
"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."
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