Bernard Cornwell Quotes
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.
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So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but as we were talking earlier, the average American doesn't think that much about it right now. So, it may seem like something we could just give up and not really worry about it, but I think it starts creeping into the national psyche. If American astronauts have to hitch rides with the Russians or other nations in the future.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
