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.
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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.
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I would like to direct.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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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.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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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.
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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.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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We need to remember we're always a lot more wrong than we think.
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I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.
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As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
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I never want to lose the audience's attention or break up the party, but at the same time, it would be weird not to do some new music.
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I'm basically a country person.
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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.
