New Zealand Quotes - Page 5

• The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that relationship works, then everything else works as well. And you kind of almost, sort of, gives into a realm of something like New Zealand magic realism... There is no world in which social work is actually pursues some kid into the woods in this manner.

  Sam Neill

  Kids, Magic Realism, Giving

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand.

  Ladyhawke

  Girl, Country, Stills

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I never really wondered about getting from London to Lahaul. It all seemed such a natural progression. In London I felt I was in the wrong place and wanted to leave. I'd thought about going to Australia or New Zealand. It's nothing against England, but I knew I wasn't meant to be there.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Australia, London, England

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Nobody knows who Barry Crump is, anywhere, but in New Zealand he's huge. I am of that age, where I sort of grew up with Barry Crump books. Look, if you read the book, you realize it is actually not a funny book at all.

  Sam Neill

  Book, Age, Looks

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I'm just a small-town New Zealand girl. But, I do think it was incredibly necessary for me. Wild Things wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made some dramatic changes and that all happened in LA.

  Ladyhawke

  Girl, Thinking, Towns

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I think it took us all by surprise. I mean, I knew that people in New Zealand would like [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], but no one really anticipated how much they would embrace it as it is. And it's playing widely in Australia now; they're running it as well. It's going to be interesting to see how it does it in the States, but I think if Sundance was any indication, I imagine it could do well.

  Sam Neill

  Running, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• 'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the film. It's so virgin and green, it's like God said 'lets try again' and he got it right this time!

  Ruby Wax

  Drama, Piano, Trying

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• I feel like success is really subjective. You could win a school talent show and be like "I was successful", or you could get a Number One in New Zealand and be like "I was successful', or you could win a Grammy and be like "I was successful".

  Thomston

  School, Successful, Winning

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• I was born in London. I moved to New Zealand when I was really young; I can't remember London. My parents went and did what was supposed to be a one-year O.E. (overseas experience) that turned into a 9 year O.E. and they had two kids.

  Thomston

  Kids, Years, Two

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• New Zealanders are so chill. I know they say Australians are chill, and I feel like Australians are chill, but I keep thinking, "If they get drunk, they would commit a hate crime." Now that is an extreme position to take, but it's just a feeling I get. New Zealand people, I don't see that.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I got the job [in Moana], and the next day I was on a plane to New Zealand, where the rest of the team was already doing research, and meeting with different choirs, and sort of really soaking up the music, the musical world of, the musical heritage of this part of the world.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Jobs, Team, Next Day

  Source: deadline.com

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• It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is "We Know The Way." That's the first song we wrote for the movie [Moana]. We actually got it written that weekend in New Zealand, so we're all in New Zealand, we're all absorbing this culture, and Opetaia [Foa'i] brought it in.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Song, Mean, Weekend

  Source: deadline.com

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• It was very much an Australian/New Zealand initiative to have a nuclear free South Pacific. And the Americans were very apprehensive about this. So, I explained to them that, as far as I was concerned, this didn't involve any diminution in our commitment to the ANZUS relationship. But David Lange took it further and he barred visits of US nuclear warships to New Zealand.

  Bob Hawke

  Commitment, Nuclear, Initiative

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

  Tony Judt

  London, Chance, Born

  "Historian Tony Judt dies aged 62" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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• New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

  Peter Jackson

  Country, Village, Small Countries

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• My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Girl, Blood, London

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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• Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.

  Helen Clark

  Wells, Courses, Anti-american

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• Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people.

  Helen Clark

  Country, Land, People

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• That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

  Ian Mckellen

  People, Australia And New Zealand, Lord

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• I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

  Grant Bowler

  Born

  "Grant Bowler of Lost, Ugly Betty". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. February 5, 2009.

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• If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Russia, Choices, India

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Simplicity, Charming

  Philip Parker King, Sir Francis Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Charles Darwin (1839). “Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...”, p.514

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• If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

  Mark Twain

  Looks, Too Much, Reader

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.254, eKitap Projesi

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• Altogether too many sheep

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sheep

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• I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.

  Clement Freud

  Hard

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