Jeffrey Archer Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
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Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.
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I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.
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You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
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Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.
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Raymond Roussel said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. One tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing.
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That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.
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