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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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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
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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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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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We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
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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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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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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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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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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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I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
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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.
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I've loved art for more than 30 years.
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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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It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
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