Bernard Cornwell Quotes
'They're drunk sods, sir, but they're the best Soldiers in the world. The very best.' And he meant it. They were the elite, the damned, the Rifles. They were Soldiers in green. They were Sharpe's Rifles.

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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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Don Knotts left Andy Griffith Show to pursue a movie career, so once he was gone I left too.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.
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Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
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I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes.
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'They're drunk sods, sir, but they're the best Soldiers in the world. The very best.' And he meant it. They were the elite, the damned, the Rifles. They were Soldiers in green. They were Sharpe's Rifles.