Jeffrey Archer Quotes
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When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
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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.
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Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.
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And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
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Exclusive will not be published in book format.
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At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
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The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle
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War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.
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If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
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I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
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We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
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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.
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It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
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Chatterers are a menace.
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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!
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With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor
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I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?
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When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
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Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.
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Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.
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I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.
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While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
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There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.
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When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
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I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking
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I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
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I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
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The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
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Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper
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No time like the present
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