Jeffrey Archer Quotes
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.
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The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
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The group is only interested in the formal publishing of individuals for the purpose of establishing their social solidarity.
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In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away - of their corrosive function - just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid.
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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At best Americans give but limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.
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Non far altrui quel che patir non vuoi.
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Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.
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I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
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I was born in New York, but I'm of Cuban heritage. Maybe there's a little island in my blood.
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I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.
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We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
