Conn Iggulden Quotes
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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Many are called but few get up.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
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I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
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When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.
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If my brother was made to kneel... you will never walk again.
