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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Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.
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We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false.
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I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.
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Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.
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I do greatly admire Australian artists.
