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A police state is a country run by criminals
Robert Harris
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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
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Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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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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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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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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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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For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?
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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
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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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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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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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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
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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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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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