Jeffrey Archer Quotes
When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I think, for me, winning opens doors to all types of shapes and sizes and genres to come on the show and kill it. I'm probably the antithesis of what American Idols have been.
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The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
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I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
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I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
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My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
