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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The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.
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3D printers give us what we've all been craving: another reason to talk to technical support. When you finally get the thing working, though, you'll be able to print out your grocery list as a cube! When you look up directions online, you can print the map out on a globe!
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I played against Kobe a lot when I was in high school during the summers, even in college, just being that guy in L.A. coming up. He always gave me advice here and there, and even the smallest things stuck with me. I watched every single thing that Kobe did, every game, every move. He made me a student of the game.
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Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like.
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I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
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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.
