John Key Quotes
New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.
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It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician.
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If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.
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I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term 'artist' rather embarrassing.
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According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
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New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.
