Bernard Cornwell Quotes
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
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This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'
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I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.
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The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
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When somebody keeps telling you, 'This book is amazing,' you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, 'Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.'
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If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.
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I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
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I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.
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How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?
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So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
