English - Politician | April 15, 1940 -
I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
Jeffrey Archer
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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 wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
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I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
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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.
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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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Chatterers are a menace.
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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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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.
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Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
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