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.Jeffrey Archer
Quotes to Explore
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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.
V. E. Schwab -
It's nice not to be too boring.
Barry Pepper -
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.
Jack Keane -
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.
Patrick Ness -
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
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.
Octavia Spencer
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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.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
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.
M. John Harrison -
Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
Becky G -
It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
Gary Burton -
I've always been interested in making movies.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
Adam Carolla -
I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
Kat Graham -
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
Kate Millett -
The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. Chidambaram -
Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
Jack O'Brien -
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Harold MacMillan
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I think I have an inherent modest level of stress, but I'm only super-aware of it when it goes away, when I'm on holiday and I think, 'Oh this feels pretty good.'
Mark Ronson -
The editors and the creators of 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' they are so good at casting and at finding these young, beautiful lunatics to go on the show.
Joel McHale -
I've had a lot more fun with the training.
Kristi Yamaguchi -
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
Donna Tartt -
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.
Jeffrey Archer