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Quotes by New-zealander Authors
"Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance."
"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'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."
"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order."
"It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity."
"This song is for my Molly, who is the best fucking thing that s ever happened to me. Also, for those suicidal idiots sending her fan mail asking her to run away with them, I will hunt you down and rip off you nuts."
"Do I look like I want to be eaten alive after sex?"
"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
"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."
"It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it."
"You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it."
"It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan."
"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."
"In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form."
"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 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."
"When I teach people, I marry them."
"Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it."
"The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible."
"Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe."
"I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
"It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
"Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life."
"I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people."
"We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world."
"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."
"I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again."
"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."
"It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us."
"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."
"Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times."
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
"Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view."
"I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on."
"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there."
"A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question."
"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."
"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."
"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change."
"Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel."
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in."
"I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up."
"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."
"The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin."
"Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them."
"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1."
"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."
"Bye, Trace. Hope you and Andreja have a good day. Oh, I may be arrested for homicide soon. Please come visit me in prison."
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