Bernard Cornwell Quotes
Good plain soldiering wins wars. Doing mundane things well is what counts.
Bernard Cornwell
Quotes to Explore
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
Vince Gill
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I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
Victoria Justice
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
Ma Huateng
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
E. F. Schumacher
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
M. J. Rose
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
Warren Spector
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I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.
Lance Henriksen
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We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
Katha Pollitt
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And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
Billy Ocean
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
Qandeel Baloch
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
Hari Kunzru
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I know a lot of guys say that when they are younger - 'I'm gonna get it, get my money, and get out' - and then end up wrestling until they're 50. But that could end up being me, too. I can tell you I want to get out early and end up eating my own words. All of a sudden, I'm 50, and I'm still walking out there.
Dean Ambrose
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Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.
Jacques Rivette
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Good plain soldiering wins wars. Doing mundane things well is what counts.
Bernard Cornwell
