Bernard Cornwell Quotes

'You had no choice, sir.' 'There's always a choice.'

Bernard Cornwell

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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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Fame

• Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • True
  • Fiction

• 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.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

  

  Adam Brody
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Date

• When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Never
  • Kid

• I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Film
  • Act

• 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.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Work
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Air
  • Successful

• All government, of course, is against liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Against

• 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.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Guy
  • Problem
  • Going

• Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Mirror
  • Monkey

• I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Home
  • Try
  • Healthy

• Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Listening
  • Lyrics
  • Dylan song

• There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Art
  • Opportunity
  • Literature

• Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Good
  • Parents

• As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Hollywood
  • Most
  • Captain

• 'You had no choice, sir.' 'There's always a choice.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell