Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-looking guy who's going to sell records based on his image.
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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.
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People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and I just tell them, 'I went through it in real life, so it's like pilots watching a 'Top Gun' movie or cyclists watching a bicycle movie,' something like that.
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You can analyze all you want but you can never explain away the God factor. Sometimes God just decides to breathe on something and it's completely His prerogative.
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Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.
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I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
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'You had no choice, sir.' 'There's always a choice.'
