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Anthony McCarten Quotes

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.

Anthony McCarten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: 1961

Topics

Myself People Fly Perception Present

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

Jock Sturges

People Know Wiser Need See Minority

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

Jessica Simpson

Life Grow Always Expanding How

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

John Mellencamp

You Worst First Afraid Happen Fail

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, and it's located here in Canada, in Waterloo, Ont.

Robert J. Sawyer

World Physics Canada Pure Here

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

Tom Stoppard

Anniversary Beginning Revolution Play

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

Tom Felton

Love Time Tree Relax I Can Outside

I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.

Mary Oliver

Feel Always Whatever Poem Necessary

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

Mike Wallace

Best Job Year News Run Out

I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.

Mireille Enos

Grateful Career How Really

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

Liza Minnelli

Believe Hell Heaven Earth Go Been

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

Lisa Murkowski

History Ugly End Voting American

I really didn't want to leave the show, but I got a chance to do a movie, which meant I would have had to miss two shows, and at the time Lorne had a policy where you can't miss shows, so I left.

Jon Lovitz

Time Chance You Want Policy Leave