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Quotes by New-zealander Authors
"I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive."
"It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection."
"The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries."
"The peacemaker must have the strongest heart and the toughest will in the room."
"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!"
"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."
"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."
"If he decided to pursue Sienna...Sucking in a breath Indigo promised herself she'd warn the girl if and when the time came-because no woman should have to face that campaign unprepared."
"Actual violence has no attraction for me at all."
"The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children."
"There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors."
"I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup."
"When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back."
"Some women, Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, "getunder a man's skin until digging them out makes you bleed."
"Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner."
"How do you control your telekinesis while intimate with your mate?""I broke a damn lot of furniture at the start, including two beds." A curious glance. "What are you doing?""Traveling around the world."
"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 just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy."
"I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually."
"Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real."
"You know how spooky Ashwini is. She called an hour ago to tell me she has a secret stash of handheld grenade launchers she thought I might want to know about. My response was, 'What the fuck?"
"He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. "It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars."
"If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed."
"The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace."
"That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do."
"I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name."
"The fear is like metal on my tongue-I've known him but a fragment of time, and yet I'm certain if I accept his suit, it will destroy a part of me when he leaves.Keir reached forward to tuck her hair behind her ear. "We're all a little broken. Quiet. Potent. "No one goes through life with a whole heart."
"I might be on the fence about this life, but I 'm not and will never be on the fence about you. I will fight for you."
"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."
"It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby."
"It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best."
"I have something for you."Yeah? What? Is it shiny?They both waited until Indigo had jogged away before resuming their conversation. "So, Riley asked, "what have you got for me? Taking his hand, she placed it palm-down over her heart. It would hurt like a bitch, she thought, but he was hers to protect as much as she was his. "Me. And she opened up her soul, laid herself bare."
"I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.''I won't let you fall."
"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."
"The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002."
"Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist."
"There's not much left inside me, Max" Sometimes, all she heard were echoes."
"Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you, reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty."
"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools."
"The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is."
"New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years."
"At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction."
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