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Bryce Courtenay Quotes

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

Bryce Courtenay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: south african
Birth: August 14, 1933 - November 22, 2012

Topics

Myself Believe I Believe Tell Lies

When you've done so many records in 20 years like I have, you're going to have ebbs and flows and go through peaks and valleys.

You Go Done Years Through Going

I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.

Brother Mind Think Artist First

Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD and watched it over a month or so and it's great. It's like reading a novel. It has a lot of possibilities that are more difficult to accomplish with a film.

Great Fun Start Reading Seasons

My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

Sister She Kid Stage Successful

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

John Chrysostom

Work Sea Great Soul Know My Own

I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

Hero Democrats Along Get Please

I just tell people I'm a dolphin trainer. It's better for everyone.

People Better Everyone Tell Dolphin

I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Emotional Only Physical Needs

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

Rose Schneiderman

Teeth Old Iron Torture Inquisition

I always said... I want to be the one who creates jobs. I want to be the guy who develops the wealth of the nation.

Wealth Said Want Nation Always Guy

I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.

Ride Bike Me Short Reach Uncle

I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.

Brandi Chastain

Time School Me Free Down Wall

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