Jeffrey Archer Quotes
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
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I'm pretty outspoken.
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I grew up in an environment where it was permittable to use violence to solve a problem. But it was not permittable ever to call the police under any circumstances. That was the kind of doctrine of my household. My dad was a career-long criminal, and you weren't calling the police for any reason.
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I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?
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Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
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I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
