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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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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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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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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Women know how to scare other women.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.
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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.
