Jeffrey Archer Quotes
And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.
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And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
