Top 885 Quotes & Sayings by New Zealander Authors - Page 13

There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.

It is not me who is to be noticed. It is my work.

I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.

I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom's father. No, Orlando Bloom's younger, hotter brother. I don't think it's going to happen.

It's not until after you've been hit by a car and landed all right that the fear kicks in.

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.

The AW14 collection is inspired by Film Noir. Elements of masculinity and femininity were reflected in the fabric, tailoring, and features.

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

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.

Probably being in politics is the worst place for me to be.

I made 'Whale Rider', I saw that to be specific and authentic is to be universal, and I've continued to work in an identical way ever since.

I want to be a good leader, not a good lady leader. I don't want to be known simply as the woman who gave birth.

I started posting a few covers on SoundCloud in 2017, and that got me into contact with my producer who I still work with, Josh Fountain.

I'm not very funny!

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

I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I withdrawn from writing about experiences which have most closely concerned and disturbed me. I have been deflected by my own reticence.

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.

I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.

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.

Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.

I'm not a liar. I'm a pretty straight up person.

I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.

My clients can choose their own colours and fabrics to have something unique in their wardrobes.

I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

I think about it as not so much 'I need to get it out of me,' it's not that my thoughts are poison, I just want to write good music.

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

I never feel comfortable modeling when I'm pregnant, even if I'm not showing.

The problem when arguing with those who believe in atheistic evolution is that they move goal posts by redefining atheism or evolution or the word 'species.'

The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

I adored my father.

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.

To me, being an All Black means following our dreams.

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

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.

You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many.

A lot of people don't believe I was a soldier. They look at my luscious hair and wacky bow-tie collection and immediately put me down as some kind of supernatural geek.

I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

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.

It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.

I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

You just feel better when you look nice.