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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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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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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
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Storytelling has a narcotic power.
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.
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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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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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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
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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 always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
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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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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
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Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!
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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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You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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