Jeffrey Archer Quotes
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.
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A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms.
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You hire well and just make sure you have enough runway for everyone to grow in the company's success. It creates loyalty and opportunity, really.
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Success takes us to the top and away from those we love.
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My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.
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I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
