Conn Iggulden Quotes
For us, luck is a trifle over which, in human life, it passes just like that. We try and suffer because, thanks to that, we know that we are alive.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
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I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?
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From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.
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Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.
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I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.
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You know how to stay young? Go with the flow.
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Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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For us, luck is a trifle over which, in human life, it passes just like that. We try and suffer because, thanks to that, we know that we are alive.
