Jeffrey Archer Quotes
I'm what you might call centre-right but I've always disliked the right wing as much as I've disliked the left wing.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
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I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
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Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
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I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
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When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
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My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.
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So spread the word cause I'm promoting my past until I'm passed out.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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Certainly, I read a lot and follow the news. But as a writer, I am not interested in a political story. I am searching for the humanity of the characters. I never set out to write a book about an 'issue.'
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If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.
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America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
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I'm what you might call centre-right but I've always disliked the right wing as much as I've disliked the left wing.
