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" My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli. "
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" If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness. "
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" 'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about. "
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" I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess. "
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" It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming. "
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" I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. "
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" It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep. "
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" Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better. "
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" In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes. "
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