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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born to a very large family, one of 7 kids. I grew up with carnivals and chaos all around me, so I can write anywhere.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have three favorite cities: London, Wellington, and Los Angeles. What makes them so good? The friends who live there.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I do get the chance to write, it is like a stolen luxury, something clandestine and almost forbidden.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading of a book. By this fact alone, we can conclude that readers are nicer people, at least until they put the book down. When we are reading, we are better.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 17, I wanted to be a rock star.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we did not have the impulse and ability to believe in the impossible, we would not have religion, democracy, or marriage.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been raised a Catholic, superstition becomes almost part of your DNA. The challenge is to slowly rid yourself of these little delusions.
- Nov 07, 2020
Life is not a waste of time.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books were a poor second to the television, which was always on, usually with me in front of it.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is the cult of the actor and of the director, and there's even been the cult of the celebrity chef and gardener, but there has never been a cult of the screenwriter. But I'm happy about that because what I crave - in a completely venal way - is creative opportunities, not recognition.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things about Churchill is that he had the guts to say the unpalatable, to level with the people, even if it cost him politically to tell them the truth.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of what dialogue should sound like. It was punchy and raw and repetitive, bursting with dynamic. I remember that switching on a lot of lights for me.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir people's hearts, and you persuade and cajole and move people out of fixed positions. The techniques are quite menacingly easy.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.
- Humour
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020