Bryce Courtenay Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
-
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
-
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
-
The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
-
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
-
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
-
I love cycling.
-
I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
-
I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
-
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
-
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
-
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
-
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
-
I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
-
I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
-
Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
-
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
-
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
-
I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.
-
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
-
It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.
-
For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction.
-
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
