Jim Bolger Quotes
So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.
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I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.
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That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
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If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.
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So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.
