Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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The world is a very abnormal place.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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I brought my sons into the business to extend my working life, so I could keep my hand in the business.
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There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes.
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As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.
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'What we should have done, lads, is gone north.'
