Conn Iggulden Quotes
The Chin have held us down for a long time, but that is over. We ride to war, brother.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.
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You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
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One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.
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My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.
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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'
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Terrorists destroy randomly.
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There isn't that disconnect between the fashion industry and people now - you can be a trendsetter even if you don't go to shows. The industry isn't as snobbish as it used to be.
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I don't believe in "average people" doing anything about the climate. People outght to support mitigation and adaptation within their own line of work, no matter how un-average that is. I mean: if you're a butcher, baker, ballerina, banker, or a plumber, envision yourself as the post-fossil-fuel version of yourself, and get right after it
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The Chin have held us down for a long time, but that is over. We ride to war, brother.
