Bryce Courtenay Quotes
Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.Bryce Courtenay
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
Sam Raimi -
I would like to direct.
Aaron Eckhart -
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Samuel Butler -
It's nice not to be too boring.
Barry Pepper -
The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
Maisie Williams
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
Abu Abbas -
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel -
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
Mae Jemison -
Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
T. J. Miller -
If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
Namie Amuro -
I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
Dana Hussein
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
Patricia Highsmith -
Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
Natalie Portman -
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
E. M. Forster -
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
Adam Mansbach -
I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
Kailash Kher -
I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
Carli Lloyd
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When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.
Angie Harmon -
Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.
Jean-Michel Jarre -
I can honestly say I am the luckiest man around to be able to have worked at a job I love for so many years. It's truly been a joy for me.
Carl Kasell -
Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.
Zadie Smith -
Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
Bryce Courtenay