Jeffrey Archer Quotes
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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People travel north from Barcelona, not south.
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My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.
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During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.
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The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting.
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It's a very simple process. He [Danny Boyl] comes in the tube (subway) and then he sits with me for 3 hours every evening and then I work on something. Then later, if he likes something, I put it even more perfectly. I tweak stuff. So this happened for 3 or 4 weeks and the music was done.
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When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
