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.

Conn Iggulden

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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.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
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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?

  

  Tablo
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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.

  

  Barbara Bush
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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.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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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.

  

  Gary Bettman
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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?

  

  Tamsin Greig
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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.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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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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• It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

  

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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.

  

  Ernest Holmes
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• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
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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.

  

  Conn Iggulden
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  • Luck
  • Alive