Bernard Cornwell Quotes
The Marques' thought he had the Rifleman beaten, but all he had done was to make the Rifleman fight. This no longer looked like a duel to d'Alembord; it looked like a brawl leading to slaughter.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I love India.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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I think that fiction has a certain power.
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Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.
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It's been great that every title that we've done internally has been a huge success, but when you've got 50 or 100 people on there, all their families and everyone counting on you there, the idea of 'What if you screw up once?' or 'What if the market changes?'
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I think it's harder for R&B to break in England because the radio and labels don't really know what to do with R&B music.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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The Marques' thought he had the Rifleman beaten, but all he had done was to make the Rifleman fight. This no longer looked like a duel to d'Alembord; it looked like a brawl leading to slaughter.
