Bryce Courtenay Quotes
My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.
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Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.
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We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution. I mean, I'm discriminated against all the time. I don't care. It doesn't bother me. [I'm discriminated against] because I'm old. I'm too old to get a job as a game show host. They say, well, the guy's 71 and in five years he'll be 76. And I'm a one per center, and I'm absolutely discriminated against as a one per center.
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My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.
