Bernard Cornwell Quotes
We have honour, Sharpe. That is our private strength, our honour. We're Soldiers, you and I. We cannot expect riches, or dignity, or continual victory. We will die, probably, in battle, or in a fever ward, and no one will remember us, so all that is left is honour.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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You can stroke people with words.
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If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
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What between tipping the man who had brought us home, and paying for the broken sculls, and for having been out four hours and a half, it cost us a pretty considerable number of weeks’ pocket-money, that sail. But we learned experience, and they say that is always cheap at any price.
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
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We have honour, Sharpe. That is our private strength, our honour. We're Soldiers, you and I. We cannot expect riches, or dignity, or continual victory. We will die, probably, in battle, or in a fever ward, and no one will remember us, so all that is left is honour.
