Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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In my final year of college, I was interning with L'Oreal, when during one of the photo shoots, a photographer suggested I become a model. I was working under Smira Bakshi, who was this really cool chick, as she was loaded, had her fun, and was successful. I basically aspired to be her.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy , and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all
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I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.
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It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
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Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
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Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
