Jeffrey Archer Quotes - Page 2

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• With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

  Jeffrey Archer

  Making Love, Important, Torture

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• Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Favourite City, Cities, Earth

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• But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Regret, Mistake, Thinking

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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.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Stupid, Book, Agony

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• No time like the present

  Jeffrey Archer

  Wise, Wisdom, Time

  Jeffrey Archer (2011). “The Prodigal Daughter”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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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

  Jeffrey Archer

  Kings, Energy, Talent

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• I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

  Jeffrey Archer

  Should, Mayors, Vulgar

  "Jeffrey Archer" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 1999.

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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.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Writing, Discipline, Way

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• Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Illiterate Person, People, Entering

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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!

  Jeffrey Archer

  Team, Interesting, England

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• The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Popularity, Individual

  Jeffrey Archer (2009). “Sons of Fortune”, p.446, Pan Macmillan

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• I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Two, People, Lucky

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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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  Bells, Assembly, Minutes

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• I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Years, Done, Firsts

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• Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Moving On, Years, Punishment

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• I've loved art for more than 30 years.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Art, Years

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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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  Thinking, Government, Years

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• I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Attitude, Thinking, Leaving

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• Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

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  Writing, Thinking, Leaving

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• Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Hussein, Dies, Saddam

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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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  Funny, Humor, Australia

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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.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Mps, Land, Two

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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.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Past, Years, Would Be

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• Exclusive will not be published in book format.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Book, Format, Exclusive

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• I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Book, Writing, Important

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