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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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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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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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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With 'The Leftovers,' I was actually super, super lucky. It was my first major audition. When I came out, the casting director was kissing me on the face, and I was like, 'Oh, that's probably a good sign.'
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I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away. It is not an accident that African-Americans experience high crime rates, are poor, and have less wealth. It is a direct result of our racial history.
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It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?
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Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
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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.
