Bernard Cornwell Quotes
All gunners were deaf, they said. They were the kings of the battlefield and they never heard the applause.
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
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I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.
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And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
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As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgments; … But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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Today you have this horrible alliance between the far left and the Islamists and they’re using the modern media tool to shut people like me out by smearing us.'
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I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along for the ride... So when anybody tries to take that away from me, or impede that, I get defensive.
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We all know the wonders of Skype, but there's nothing like getting a hug from your daughters or taking them to school.
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My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.
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Visibility is dangerous because if a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can't call him a name - it might get to the press.
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Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.
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With social media, you have this new kind of way to communicate with people that's very immediate, sometimes alarmingly so, sometimes painfully so. If you could just hold some objectivity, a very direct, unfiltered, raw reflection of the way something is landing in the culture without any spin, or filtration, or anything, it's very raw.
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I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies.
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Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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All gunners were deaf, they said. They were the kings of the battlefield and they never heard the applause.
