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Chatterers are a menace.

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Jeffrey Archer
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 15
Member Of The House Of Lords
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Jeffrey Howard Archer
Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare
Jeffrey Howard Archer
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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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Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: 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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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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The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
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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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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.
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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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I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
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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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No time like the present
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But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
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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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It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
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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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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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