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 am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.
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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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I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.
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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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A scholar ... should turn his ears from the talk of the illiterate and not take it to heart.
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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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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
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It isn't so much that there are so few women in finance in total but, rather, few women in senior leadership roles. It is a real problem that we all need to focus on every day, but it is not a burden. It is an opportunity.
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A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.
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Love is a healer and I love you.
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We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
