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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I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.
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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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The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
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I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.
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The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.
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I do greatly admire Australian artists.
