Bernard Cornwell Quotes

Good plain soldiering wins wars. Doing mundane things well is what counts.

Bernard Cornwell

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• Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

  

  Larry Wilcox
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  • Home
  • Best

• I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.

  

  Osric Chau
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  • Game
  • Play

• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Good
  • Company

• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
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  • Sun
  • Lying

• Caffeine is a good thing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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  • Caffeine
  • A Good Thing

• I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Up
  • Good
  • Night

• 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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  • Good
  • Fighting

• 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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  • Good
  • Writing

• 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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  • Bad
  • Relationship

• 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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  • Long
  • Character

• 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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  • Wealth
  • Satisfaction

• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
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  • Bad
  • Economic

• 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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  • Done
  • Art

• 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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  • Author
  • Manners

• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • True
  • Man

• Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

  

  Larry Holmes
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  • Me
  • Partner

• Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Language

• Don’t get me wrong. These people are mine. I like and in many ways admire them. They’re the salt of the earth. It’s simply that I want other condiments too.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • People
  • Earth

• The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • History
  • End
  • Battle

• Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

  

  Charlie Korsmo
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

  

  C. R. Smith
  • Money
  • Business
  • Aviation

• Good plain soldiering wins wars. Doing mundane things well is what counts.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
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