Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner

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The New Zealand culture and nature is such that we find it very difficult to celebrate creative achievement. In order to get New Zealanders' respect you have to dominate the world like Peter Jackson has done. He is absolutely revered. - Niki Caro

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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. – Margaret Carty

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He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. -- Albert Camus

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If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. ― Émile Zola

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Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

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I didn’t want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself. – DJ Khaled

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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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