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.

Jeffrey Archer

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• In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Great
  • Trying

• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Happens

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Dreams

• 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.

  

  Larry King
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Jealous

• 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.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Childhood
  • Nose

• Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Eyes

• As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Start
  • Confused

• 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.

  

  Kaskade
  • Up
  • You
  • Special

• 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.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • God
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Family
  • Home
  • You

• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Theater
  • Arena
  • Park

• In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Time
  • Back
  • Passport

• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Fun
  • Most
  • Ever

• Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Light
  • Fashion
  • Try

• How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • World
  • Human
  • View

• 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.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Security
  • Jeans
  • Followed

• All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • World
  • Society
  • Mistakes

• In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.

  

  Bjork
  • Music
  • House
  • Listening

• It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Night
  • Presidential
  • Election

• Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Failure

• The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Science
  • Circumstances
  • Exception

• 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.

  

  Jeffrey Archer
  • Success
  • Grease