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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.

Bernard Cornwell

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.
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Cheerleader Drama Obstacle Procedure
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
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Friendship Kings Queens Writing
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don’t take chances then you’ll never have a winning hand, and I’ve no regrets.
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Hands Regret Winning
Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that’s more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won’t it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?
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Awkward God Heaven Latin Suppose
Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.
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Change Cruel Nailed Truth Warrior
This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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Blood Bone Land Our Strengthened
The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life’s lessons.
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Beget Children Lesson Mercy Son Tragically
A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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Battle Enemy Men Watching
Research is a lifelong occupation so it’s hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.
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Book Finish Months Research
Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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Day Every Ordinary Unit
I’ll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.
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Mentor Mentoring Want
Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.
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Change Land Tribe War Winning
Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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Arared Fate Ful Inexorable
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life… Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted.
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Love Men Thinking Wanted Wrenches
You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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Men Pass Regret Women
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you’re writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
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Attention Book Proof Thinking Writing

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