Jeffrey Archer Quotes
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Time stays, we go.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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We all have done something unethical.
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The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
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The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
