Bernard Cornwell Quotes
Death was so channeled and directed by this staircase, yet Sharpe had learned that the steps a man feared most were the ones that had to be taken. He climbed.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
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Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.
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Every text assumes a reader.
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I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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Death was so channeled and directed by this staircase, yet Sharpe had learned that the steps a man feared most were the ones that had to be taken. He climbed.
