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I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Ken Follett

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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
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There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
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President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
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Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
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