Jeffrey Archer Quotes
I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I never left doo wop.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceive assume everybody deceives.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.
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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
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I auditioned for a one-act version of 'The Princess and the Pea' called 'The Ugly Duckling,' and I was cast as the King, starting a pattern of being cast in roles originally intended for men. I went to the first rehearsal, and I didn't get any laughs, and I choked and I quit. I walked away from it and joined the tennis team.
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I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
