Conn Iggulden Quotes

The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart.

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• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Cooking

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Unexpected

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Help
  • Vision

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • Think
  • Perfect

• Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Future
  • Perspective

• I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Working
  • Improv
  • Excite

• I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Fun
  • Sexy
  • Have Fun

• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • Want
  • Strong

• I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. (On H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter) Ch. 2, 'The Late Mr. Wells'

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Job
  • Reading

• I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Why

• I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • God
  • Why
  • Sun

• 'Shotgun Stories' and 'Take Shelter'... I was willing to make those with no money and no time. With 'Mud,' I just wanted to protect it until I could have the resources. It's a real tricky movie.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Time
  • Real
  • Money

• When we formed Bad Company, I looked around and asked, 'Who is the biggest rock band in the world?' The answer was undoubtedly Led Zeppelin. Peter Grant was their manager, so we got him to work with us. That made the difference for Bad Company.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • World
  • Work
  • Bad

• Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • United States
  • White

• The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • World
  • Full
  • Pull