Bernard Cornwell Quotes
'Never in my life have I seen two villages on opposite banks of a river that weren't connected by a ford.'
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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My father was a doctor.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she had to give in just a few years. Now you listen to covers of her songs by various women, and it's pale in comparison.
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'Never in my life have I seen two villages on opposite banks of a river that weren't connected by a ford.'
