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 have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
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I wrote in the mornings, often in cafes, on the way to the office. I gave myself a daily word minimum, usually 750. I tried to save revision for the weekends, when I had more consecutive hours to string together.
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I know, these Hindi movies are crap, but they do kind of take your mind away from the crap of real life like nothing else.
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The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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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.
