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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The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
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I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really hope that people kinda go: "This happened once and I kind of like this song because I relate to it..." So if at least one of my songs over this tour's that song, then that's really cool.
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'You had no choice, sir.' 'There's always a choice.'
