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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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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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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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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I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it's really mental.
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For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.
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I worked in Syria on the front lines, and you hear the plane, you hear the shell is dropping, you realize it's not on you - 'Good' - and then you see the patients coming in and take care of them. And then you have down time. With Ebola, it seems there's no down time. It seems you're always at the front line; you're always exposed.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
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To be generous is the best way to live in this world.
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It?s not me to sleep with loads of men, but I do believe in having different experiences. At the end of the day, the nicest thing is the old-fashioned one-on-one.
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I do love situational comedy, clowning, and slapstick; I approach that with a lot of respect. The goofier you are, it doesn't mean you're going to be funnier.
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All gunners were deaf, they said. They were the kings of the battlefield and they never heard the applause.
