Conn Iggulden Quotes
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I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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I think people desperately want to feel love.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
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'Down we go,' said Paddy. 'Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic-''I'm not,' snapped Fay, 'and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.'
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One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and original as if they had not been.
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Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.
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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
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The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.
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In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
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You have a powerful army, Kublai, but the best force is one you do not have to use.
