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'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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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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We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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Everything that I do is with a purpose and intent of wanting to make a difference.
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What sort of man is this, who over and over again, gave numerous details about His death, months before it occurred, and added to each such utterance that on the third day after His decease He would rise again from the dead - and DID RISE, as even the city of Jerusalem soon came to believe? No other founder of a great world religion (or a small one) ever made such statements, or ever came forth from the dead.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
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Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
