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I was a political journalist I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
Robert Harris
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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
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Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.
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You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.
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It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.
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My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
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I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.
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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
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Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.
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People perish. Books are immortal.
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