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Life advice from some of your favourite New Zealanders.

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'Hope is an act of defiance': Miranda Harcourt on avoiding paranoia and negativity

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‘I can’t wait to put them in a play’: Dave Armstrong on the benefits of meeting insufferable people

‘Something to be ashamed of’: Aidee Walker is not a fan of billionaires

Amit Ohdedar doesn’t regret a single moment living in New Zealand

Urzila Carlson on why having good manners trumps all

Reb Fountain is voting for love this year

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A photo of musician Jon Toogood who is standing in a hallway holding a guitar and looking at the camera. He has long hair and a beard.

Jon Toogood wouldn’t change a thing, even the parts that sucked

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Choreographer Kura Te Ua on energy vampires and forgetting about recognition

Paddy Gower on the best advice Winston Peters ever gave him

Guy Montgomery on the secret to creativity and the power of the phone call

Actor Dean O'Gorman wears a brown knitted cardigan and looks upwards

‘Not everything happens for a reason’: Dean O’Gorman’s most controversial opinion