Conn Iggulden Quotes
I will need good friends around me if I am to survive my first year of politics. My father described it as walking barefoot in a nest of vipers.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.
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I will need good friends around me if I am to survive my first year of politics. My father described it as walking barefoot in a nest of vipers.
