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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For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?
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Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.
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I really think the biggest honor, as a comic, is to get roasted by either the Friars Club or the Comedy Central or someone like that. Because it really shows, you know, that you've arrived.
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The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that's what they really need. They're misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.
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Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.
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'The more I see of families ... the happier I am to be an orphan.'
