Conn Iggulden Quotes
A man must always have the possibility of a final choice between life and death. You can take him all the rest, but that never.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbor give To more virtue than doth live.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.
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A man must always have the possibility of a final choice between life and death. You can take him all the rest, but that never.
