New Zealand Quotes - Page 3

• One thing that influenced me in the States when I was doing this recording was American people feeding me things like Arnold Dreyblatt, even things I should've heard back in New Zealand like Peter Jefferies and Jono Lonie 'At Swim 2 Birds.

  Roy Montgomery

  People, Bird, Swim

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• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

  Barry Humphries

  Country, Thinking, Sheep

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

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• I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much.

  Josh Hartnett

  Home, Shooting, Good Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Bowlers, Very Good

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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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• New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape.

  Robert Muldoon

  Initiative

  Robert David Muldoon (1981). “My Way”, Wellington : Reed

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• On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

  Jenny Shipley

  Needs, Structure, Aspect

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• New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

  Jenny Shipley

  Taken, Years, Two

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• By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

  Jenny Shipley

  Country, Progress, Made

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• And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

  Tony Greig

  Years, Asking, Return

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I remember the snow in Canada and the lovely weather in New Zealand. And I slightly remember going to school there.

  Robin Trower

  School, Weather, Snow

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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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