Bernard Cornwell Quotes
If you capture a ship, Sharpe, you keep the old name unless it's really obnoxious. Nelson took the Franklin at the Nile, an eighty gun thing of great beauty, but the navy will be damned if it has a ship named after a traitorous bloody Yankee so we call her the Canopus now.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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I'm very happy alone.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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It's amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that's definitely my aim.
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Why does God endow us with compassion?
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I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
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'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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If you capture a ship, Sharpe, you keep the old name unless it's really obnoxious. Nelson took the Franklin at the Nile, an eighty gun thing of great beauty, but the navy will be damned if it has a ship named after a traitorous bloody Yankee so we call her the Canopus now.
