Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
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I've got a very interesting background.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
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A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.
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... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
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When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.
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It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
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The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
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'The more I see of families ... the happier I am to be an orphan.'
