New Zealand Quotes - Page 3

• I definitely miss New Zealand. Mainly friends and family.

  Bret McKenzie

  Missing, Family And Friends

  "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.

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• Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

  Bret McKenzie

  Guy, Musical, Looks

  "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.

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• Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

  David Lange

  United States, Answers, Might

  "Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange" compiled by David Barber, 1987.

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• Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.

  Zane Grey

  Beautiful, Rivers, White

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• I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.

  Tom Odell

  Memories, Want

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• I've never been to New Zealand, but I can imagine it's beautiful. I don't know much about New Zealand... but I do know that I did watch 'Lord Of The Rings' so it looks really pretty.

  Jack Barakat

  Beautiful, Watches, Looks

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• Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in...well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication.

  Patrick Symmes

  Weekend, Wife, Southern

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• I don't know a lot about New Zealand except that it is beautiful! All of my friends in bands who have toured there have said great things about it so I hope I can go perform there soon!

  Dia Frampton

  Beautiful, Band, Said

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• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  Orlando Bloom

  Running, Clothes, Arrows

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• I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

  Jamie Bamber

  Country, Watches, Rugby

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• Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.

  Ian Mckellen

  Taken, Adventure, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.

  Josh Lewsey

  Team, Skills, World

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• Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.

  John Oliver

  Role Playing, Roles, Welcome

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• It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

  Karl Urban

  Mother, Age, Renaissance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

  Renee O'Connor

  People, Different, Imagine

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• Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

  Charles Darwin

  Tattoo, Country, Regions

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7537, Delphi Classics

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• There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

  Elijah Wood

  Real, Unique, Our World

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• New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Bowlers, Very Good

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• I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.

  Kevin Nealon

  Firsts, Aliens, Film

  "Paul Mann: Master Comedian Kevin Nealon Talks About His Career, Tour". Interview with L. Paul Mann, www.noozhawk.com. January 13, 2012.

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• Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.

  Hideki Tojo

  War, Australia, World

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• There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out.

  Nicolas Cage

  Two, Australia, Long

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• I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

  Jane Campion

  Running, Winter, Cutting

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.

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• God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

  Russell Crowe

  Queens, Australia Day, America

  "Kiwis find something to crow about". www.telegraph.co.uk. March 28, 2001.

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• I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

  Russell Crowe

  Moving, Australia, England

  New York Daily News, 2000.

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• I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Eggs, Breakfast, Breakfast Being Important

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