Conn Iggulden Quotes
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
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I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
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I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
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There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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I did not stay at the 'Today' show because of money. I think there are other ways to make money.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
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The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.
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Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
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No man could be a khan to his mother.
