Conn Iggulden Quotes
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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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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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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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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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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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 circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.
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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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It is important to note, further, that the morality which the prophets had in mind in their strenuous insistence on righteousness was not merely the private morality of the home, but the public morality on which national life is founded. They said less about the pure heart for the individual than of just institutions for the nation.
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I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story.
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These eight rules above contain all the precepts for solid and immutable proofs.
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Change is one thing, progress is another.
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Whoever controls the heart of the land, controls the world
