Jeffrey Archer Quotes
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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 stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!
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The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
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I think it's pretty cruel to give a kid a name that others are going to have. I think it's very important to have a unique name within any group you're likely to be in.
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There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.
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You've been thinking and I've been drinking.
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I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
