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“What advice would you give to your fourteen year old self?”
“Slow down, I’d tell her to slow down and don’t grow up too fast. Just enjoy being fourteen. Becoming an adult isn’t as cool as you think it is.”

“I am tattooist, these two are customer.”
“You’ve got a strong accent man, where you from?”
“I am Russian.”

“I’m in the 16th Field Regiment, I specialized in artillery, specifically mortars and howitzers”
“Which howitzer?”
“The L119 model.”
“How many of you guys are deployed right now?”
“32 of us. There’s a heavy reliance on the use of UAV. They’re big on...

“She’s a great girl man. She moved across to the other side of the world with me. We’re from Wales.”

Beers at 9am?“
"Two words my friend .. champions league.”

“Music is a creative pathway that allows me to go through life expressing myself and I do it cause it makes me happy.”
“Where do you find the guts to perform in front of these people on the streets or anywhere else?”
“It was hard at first but once you start doing it and doing it again, you get used to it. Right now, I feel like I can go to any town in New Zealand and perform comfortably.”

“Its like this. Sometimes I feel like my life is an ongoing series of bullshit and I don’t know how I cope with it but I do.”

“When’s the last time somebody tried to rip you off?”
“I work in real estate, people all over this city are trying to rip me off. They try, but they don’t. It’s my job to make sure they don’t.”

“Can you remember a time when you were really sad in your life?”
“When my mother passed away. I was forty years old. She was an amazing mother.”
“What are some fond memories you have of her?”
“I remember she loved to bake. She was always baking. When she had to go do the shopping, she’d take us with her and buy us lollies, we’d wear plastic cowboy hats and have duels in the supermarket aisle.”

“We’ve been on and off since we were twelve.”

“I never knew my father. I learned to be a man without him. My mother was a strong woman.”

“I dropped out of school to start my own business, but then my business failed.”
“Right, hey you there at the back, what happened to your arm?”
“I pulled my shoulder lifting tyres, hey, how old do you think I am.”
“Aw man, to be honest, you look...

“I am from Ishikawa, she is from Osaka.”
“What can you tell me about people from Osaka?”
“[Japanese]”
“She says people from Osaka are good at comedy, they are funny people.”