Conn Iggulden Quotes
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
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I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
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If you're talking about a world in which everybody is connected by computers 24 hours a day, that exists right now.
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When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.
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I do embarrassing things all the time, but I don't really get embarrassed. It's like I'm unaware of my embarrassing things.
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I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.
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I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!
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A past is comforting because it' certain.
