Conn Iggulden Quotes
And the next time a pretty girl looks twice at you, start running. They're more trouble than they're worth.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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Basically, I want that relationship where we have that love. I love her so much, and she loves me so much that it's just - you want that relationship where you look into the girl's eyes, and you know that she's everything you've ever wanted. When I find that, I'm going to get it!
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?
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I'm not a girl who's into home comforts and luxury.
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He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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And the next time a pretty girl looks twice at you, start running. They're more trouble than they're worth.
