Conn Iggulden Quotes

I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

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• I made my first movie when I was five.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • First
  • Made

• When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Serious
  • Choices
  • Learn

• In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

  

  Oliver North
  • Bad
  • Action
  • Best

• Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Different
  • Think
  • Choices

• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• At 8, I made a pact with God.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • God
  • Made
  • Pact

• You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Stop

• Kleenex would have made a mint today.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Today
  • Made
  • Mint

• I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Trying
  • College
  • Couple

• I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Choices
  • Bird

• By the time we've made it, we've had it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Made
  • By The Time

• Tradition has made women cowardly.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Women
  • Made
  • Tradition

• I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Film
  • Made
  • Because

• There were choices to be made, harder choices than I would have liked, and I realised that I had been neglecting them because of their very difficulty.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Choices

• Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.

  

  Jake Sullivan
  • People
  • Study
  • Choices

• A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Art
  • Choices

• Every time I'm preparing a new production, I'm trying to reinvent my style and offer the audience several choices.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Style

• I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes there are people who know more than you but show you, and that's the maximum you can hope for - doing that with someone who says, 'I like you for what you are, and I want you to be in my picture.'

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Hope
  • Fall

• Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

  

  Scott Hamilton
  • Opinion
  • Judges
  • Figure Skating

• In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Voice
  • Authority
  • Charge

• Which would you choose: To be free or to be secure? State security and personal freedom often run along tense lines with each other, but our Constitution and its philosophical roots clearly bias freedom over safety.

  

  Andrew Napolitano
  • Free
  • Choose
  • Secure

• I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Choices
  • Made