Quotes by New Zealander/New Zealand authors (page 4)

"Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"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"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British"

Michael King, Historian

"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"

Maurice Wilkins, Scientist

"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there"

Marton Csokas, Actor

"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"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"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that"

Michael King, Historian

"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"

Michael King, Historian

"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"

Jim Bolger, Statesman

"I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term"

Jim Bolger, Statesman

"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"

Jonah Lomu, Athlete

"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"

Jonah Lomu, Athlete

"I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it"

Kylie Bax, Model

"We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people"

Kiri Te Kanawa, Musician

"I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long"

Kiri Te Kanawa, Musician

"When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person"

David Kirk, Athlete

"The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts"

David Kirk, Athlete

"People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive"

Phil Keoghan, Celebrity

"I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?"

Phil Keoghan, Celebrity

"Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American"

Helen Clark, Statesman

"We don't want to deal with a separatist party"

Helen Clark, Statesman

"This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"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"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"In America everyone's fast"

Scott Dixon, Celebrity

"As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat"

Glenn Turner, Athlete

"When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time"

Kiri Te Kanawa, Musician

"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'"

Martin Henderson, Actor

"Actual violence has no attraction for me at all"

Jane Campion, Director

"The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is"

Rachel Hunter, Model

"Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories"

Rachel Hunter, Model

"Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it"

Rachel Hunter, Model

"I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free"

Rachel Hunter, Model

"Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth"

Scott Dixon, Celebrity

"Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

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Quotes by New Zealander authors