Jeffrey Archer Quotes
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
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I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
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I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.
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My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.
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People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.
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It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.
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I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.
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I do greatly admire Australian artists.
