#Helping Others Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes
“My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.”
“House of Style' changed my life. I literally had no experience in front of a TV camera before, and there I was taking over for Rebecca Romijn. My exposure heightened instantly.”
“Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.”
“You've got to be tough to win.”
“A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot economist [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Environmental head bangers are talking nonsense when they claim that aviation is the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions. Coal-fired and oil-fired power stations are the biggest contributor of carbon but I have yet to hear any fearless eco warriors advocating nuclear power as they drive around in their SUVs to their next protest meeting.”
“I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.”
“I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.”
“Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.”
Frank Lebby Stanton Poet
