Conn Iggulden Quotes
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
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I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Paul Newman made eight of my favorite movies. He chose a certain kind of movie I really identified with.
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Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.
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Life is not easy, but, at least, it can be simple.
