New Zealand Quotes - Page 8

• I know that people from New Zealand don't ever wanna be confused with being Australians.

  Sydney Sierota

  Confused, People, Knows

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

  Martin Henderson

  Odds, Challenges, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense.

  Tim Finn

  Strong, People, Hip Hop

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• New Zealand looks like the future to me

  Paula Scher

  Looks

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• Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate.

  William Golding

  Real, Latin, Order

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  Madeleine Albright

  Princess, Warrior, Role Models

  Joint press conference, June 08, 1998.

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• Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Squids, Giants

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Other Worlds, Wish

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• I know as far as things like the Thunderbirds, there's a New Zealand connection. X-Files, my connection there... I mean, it could be zeitgeist. I mean, I'm into the paranormal. I have a podcast about cryptozoology. So it's out there that I'm into weird stuff.

  Rhys Darby

  Mean, Connections, Stuff

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Fishing, Half, Industry

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

  Bailee Madison

  Thinking, Bridges, Age

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• In Britain I focus on my horse riding. I ride everyday no matter what. I have a wonderful trainer called Joe Meyer. He is from New Zealand and competed in the World Games this year. I have been with him for four years and we have a good rapport.

  Liz Halliday

  Horse, Years, Games

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this [vote on same-sex marriage] out there.

  Tony Abbott

  Sex, Opportunity, Sight

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.

  Daniel Gillies

  Depressing, Rain, Air

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At some point, when you read about this factual information that comes out in The New Zealand Herald and it's barely mentioned in The New York Times, then I think you've got to question where this is being manipulated, and where the filters are.

  Eddie Vedder

  New York, Thinking, Filters

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't care about the backlash. I think the reason it was so severe was because they didn't know anything about me in New Zealand. If I had made jokes about a shark attack in the US, no one would have cared.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Thinking, Sharks, Care

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• New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

  Chris Carter

  Ocean, Japan, Whales

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• In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

  Helen Clark

  Government, Differences, Australia

  "New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: In Search of a Nation's Soul". Interview, content.time.com. August 14, 2000.

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• I've got a New Zealand film coming out here called Out of the Blue. It's a very heavy story, and it's the first time I've played a character who is alive.

  Karl Urban

  Character, Blue, Stories

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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