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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I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.
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You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.
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People say, "I'm tired of hearing about the war in Iraq. I'm tired of hearing about it." And it makes me realize how few people have deeper connections with it, as far as knowing people who have come back paralyzed or who have died, or families that have been affected . . . If they had a connection to it, then they wouldn't be tired of hearing about it.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
