Nz Quotes

#1. I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school.

Brooke Fraser

#2. We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Richard O'Brien

#3. I've watched Jamie Oliver 's Food Revolution, he wants better school lunches for children in the US and UK. In NZ, we want Kiwi kids to have school lunches!

Metiria Turei

#4. It's not tiddlywinks now, is it?..... NZ Rugby Legend

Tana Umaga

#5. You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know?

Matt Robinson

#6. Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.

John P. Conger

#7. To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.

E'yen A. Gardner

#8. I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of the job, such as the prizes and promotions. Promoting my work can be awkward, unless I feel sociable enough. Prizes encourage me to work harder on my next project.

Sefi Atta

#9. I call him happy who still hopes to rise
To the surface in this sea of error.
The very things we don't know, we could use
And what we do know we have no use for.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

Theresa Sjoquist

#11. The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

Daniel Alarcon

#12. Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#13. Doing brings happiness. T
oo much time for discussion - discord.

Theresa Sjoquist

#14. The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

Janne Teller

#15. Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
On death

John Keats

#16. I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive.

Theresa Sjoquist

#17. Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.

Kinky Friedman

#18. You've got no time to lose / You are young, and you must be living / Go now, you are forgiven.

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