Conn Iggulden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said - of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.
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Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
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It's rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.
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Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
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I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!
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Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.
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Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
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I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.
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In the military, the bottom line has to be the success of the mission.
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In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.
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'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey.
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Whoever controls the heart of the land, controls the world
