Conn Iggulden Quotes
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
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There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
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I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.
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My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky.
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We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.
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I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane.
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I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.
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I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
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The best thing I can recommend is to listen to your child. I really mean that.
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The very good never believe themselves very good, because they are judging themselves by the Ideal.
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When you’re working with Army and Marine Corps units, you immediately notice a difference. The Army is pretty tough, but their performance can depend on the individual unit. Some are excellent, filled with hoorah and first-class warriors. A few are absolutely horrible; most are somewhere in between. In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Every one of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.
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I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.
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I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
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They saw Cade’s army swelling into the open like a burst blister.
