Conn Iggulden Quotes
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
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I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
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I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
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You can't hunt a man if he's searching for you
