Jeffrey Archer Quotes
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Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
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I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
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Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
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I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
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When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
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I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
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I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
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We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
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Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
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I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
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When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
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I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.
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When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
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Chatterers are a menace.
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And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
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Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
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I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.
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I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
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We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.
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The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
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Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
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I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
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I've loved art for more than 30 years.
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But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.