Conn Iggulden Quotes
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.
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We tend to treat eating and diets as one size fits all. But the human body is very personalized.
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I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.
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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
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Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.
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I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.
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And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?
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Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.
