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I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded. -- Tori Amos
The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness. -- Henry Jenner
I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine. -- Peter Wright
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods. -- Kyle MacLachlan
There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language. -- Henry Jenner
And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why! -- Robert Stephen Hawker
If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney. -- Leo Burnett
The fact that Cornish exists at all is just incredible as is the work that people are doing down there, it's such an important part of who people are. -- Gwenno
Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. -- David Mamet
Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make rivers burst their banks and Cornish fishing boats rock and spill and lose their crew in the Atlantic. -- Susan Fletcher
Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish. -- Henry Jenner
Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites. -- Michael Pollan
I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from Cornwall and choose to paint people in what they considered to be an urban style instead of Cornish landscapes. I've never agreed with them. It's bullshit. -- Danny Fox

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