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Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

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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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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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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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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 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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The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
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With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor
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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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Chatterers are a menace.
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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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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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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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It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
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We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
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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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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 wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
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If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
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