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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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mоvie].
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I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel.
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Don't compare yourself with anyone else. The world is full of runners, so you'll probably see one every time you circle the block or your favorite park. Some will be thinner than you, some smoother-striding, some faster. But don't let this get you down. There's only one runner who really counts: you. Running is your activity. Make it work for you, and don't worry about anyone else.
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.
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'The more I see of families ... the happier I am to be an orphan.'
