Michael King
Michael King
Michael King, OBEwas a New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer. He wrote or edited over 30 books on New Zealand topics, including The Penguin History of New Zealand, which was the most popular New Zealand book of 2004...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionFilm Producer
Date of Birth29 April 1952
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It was always going to be touch and go whether they made double digit growth...It's quite a psychological blow in the short term.
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It's a great building. When I walked through the door, I knew that was where it was going to be. You can serve food in any building, but it's atmosphere also.
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They've proved they've been innovative in the past. In areas like the knee they are a bit lacking I think, but they're taking steps to address that.
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Often the broker will pick their successor. The broker ultimately gets the final say in who gets it because it's their book.
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He always said King World would take us to the top of the world, and it did. And that's what King World is: a real, true, American story. Literally, a true, American family story that stuck together, worked hard together, through a very, very winding road, to this.
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The head and neck indication was widely anticipated so it's a sell-on-the-news phenomenon in part.
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A huge change has taken place in my lifetime.
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You've got this huge gap between your current product and the products behind it.
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When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
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I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
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Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.