Conn Iggulden Quotes
Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?” she asked, tears shining in her eyes. “Power over you, little one,” he said, smiling. “What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
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I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.
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I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.
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What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. But it was also a pistol, and it went right with Texas.
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Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.
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Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?” she asked, tears shining in her eyes. “Power over you, little one,” he said, smiling. “What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.
