Face Value

If I'd listened to my mother there was no such thing as the ideal man.

– Interviewee Beatrice

Mr Winston Peters...he's got the best haircut in Auckland, or New Zealand for that matter, but he's too short.

– Interviewee Beatrice muses on the best-looking New Zealand politician (a popular choice)

Having spent a large part of my life training people for ministry, when it comes to getting jobs or getting advancement in the church, just like lots of other organisations, the people who look right, and who present themselves right, and have a sense of self-assurance without being too cocky, advance faster than people who don't ... people who look right have a better chance of being bishop. So even in the church, which in theory shouldn't care quite so much about all this stuff, looks make a difference.

– Philip