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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If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'
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Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.
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You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
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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.
