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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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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Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.
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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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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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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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A police state is a country run by criminals
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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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Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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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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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
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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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The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
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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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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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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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I was a political journalist I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
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Storytelling has a narcotic power.
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I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.
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