Michael King Quotes
I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
Quotes to Explore
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
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I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.
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I haven't watched a lot of football at all. Easiest thing for me was to take my mind away from the game all together and focus on the things that I need to get right. And football wasn't one of those things.
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There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.
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The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter carnage and terror which has engulfed so many innocent people. We've offered President Bush and the American people our solidarity, our profound sympathy, and our prayers. But it is plain that citizens of many countries round the world, including Britain, will have been caught up in this terror.
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I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
