"New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications."

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Margaret Mahy

#Country Quotes #Writing Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“When you go down a dark alley and you feel that tingling across the back of your neck, that's not just a bad feeling, that's a biological gift from God - the Gift of Fear...when you ignore that gift - when you go down the dark alley and say, Y'know, I'm sure it'll be okay - that's when you find real pain.”
“I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.”
“If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.”

Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (2003). “The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for”, p.98, Augsburg Books
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
“I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.”
“Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as Canadians to be part of these decisions. The only thing standing between this world and environmental catastrophe is us”
“Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.”
“95% of being a success in the competitive world of fashion is just showing up on time and being there. I don't know how I knew that when I was younger. You have to stick around for people to remember you.”

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