Jeffrey Archer Quotes
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I am healthy and happy.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with super-powers and that's the one I would have wanted, so I really lucked out. The negative is that people are really cruel in their own minds, but you can weed out the bad people from the good people, and then just hang out with the good people.
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I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
