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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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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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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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
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Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
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There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
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The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.
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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.
