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Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

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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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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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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 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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A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.
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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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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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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 want to be your stranger across a crowded room.
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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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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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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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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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The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
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