I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.
New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.
By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.
New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.
I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand.
I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.
How long are women to remain a wholly unrepresented body of the people? This is a question that has of late been agitated in England, and women in this colony read, watch, and reflect. . . Why should not New Zealand also lead?. . . Why has a woman to power to vote, no right to vote, when she happens to possess all the requisites which legally qualify a man for that right?
I had watched an episode of Black Mirror almost exactly a year prior to when I started shooting my episode. I was by myself in New Zealand, and my husband was like, "You have to see this show. It's so incredible. "
I am not very happy the way things are going out there in New Zealand.
I've tried to divide my time between the US and New Zealand, but it's difficult, and I suddenly realized that I like acting here in Los Angeles anyway. Because when you first come here; especially from New Zealand, you go, This is the ugliest, nastiest, grayest, smoggiest town in the world, and then your scale of beauty adjusts and suddenly you think, Oh, isn't it beautiful, not too much smog today!
I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.
I've always had the dream of going to New Zealand and meeting a lovely New Zealander in a bar.
I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and I've had moments in my life where being female is considered to be a tremendous advantage - emotionally, career-wise. Personally, I have nothing to prove. But I'm tremendously curious about human nature. Female life is so incredibly underexplored in cinema, so these stories feel very exotic.
In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.
I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.
It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.
New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean
I'm just a small-town New Zealand girl. But, I do think it was incredibly necessary for me. Wild Things wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made some dramatic changes and that all happened in LA.