Conn Iggulden Quotes
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I would love to be a role model.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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I was learning that, even for a woman with power, the path was dotted with land mines—she's so ambitious. she's so aggressive. she's ruthless. 'Funny thing,' I used to say, 'a man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.'
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.
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Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.
