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Quotes by New-zealander Authors
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels."
"Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance."
"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."
"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."
"We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people."
"The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence."
"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."
"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order."
"I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up."
"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."
"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."
"I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?"
"By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made."
"I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions."
"Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be."
"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."
"Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner."
"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'"
"I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free."
"Actual violence has no attraction for me at all."
"Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users."
"It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine."
"I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants."
"Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life."
"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."
"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."
"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 two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it."
"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."
"It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby."
"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."
"It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?"
"Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change."
"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."
"When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session."
"We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy."
"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."
"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change."
"We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world."
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