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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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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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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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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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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Herbert von Karajan always rolled out a magic carpet for us, the singers. With him, our musical work took on another dimension.
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Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.
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I have things I say over and over again, for sure, but I've never wanted to make an album or really go on the road. I don't want any traction. I just want to be able to express myself and to feel love.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of time, and I'm always surprised by things that happen in my books.
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I do greatly admire Australian artists.
