Conn Iggulden Quotes
I am the land, the bones of the hills," he said fiercely, "I am the winter. When I am dead, I will come for you all in the coldest nights.
Quotes to Explore
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.
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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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I just want to write another record that's as good or better than the one I've already made. That's my main goal, to follow up stronger than before.
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
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You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.
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To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable. My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.
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..., and the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone else's desert.
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It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
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I am the land, the bones of the hills," he said fiercely, "I am the winter. When I am dead, I will come for you all in the coldest nights.
