Robert Harris Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Robert Harris

  Writing, Trying, Four

  "What's the story?" by Robert Harris, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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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.

  Robert Harris

  Tools, Boxers, Serious

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• Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

  Robert Harris

  Thinking, Goes On, Way

  "Robert Harris: 'I used to love politics. Not now'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2010.

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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.

  Robert Harris

  Crazy, Thinking, Long

  "Robert Harris: 'The Ghost' of Tony Blair". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 31, 2007.

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• I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

  Robert Harris

  Thinking, Anxiety, Zenith

  "Drawing Parallels Between Ancient Rome and the U.S. Today". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 22, 2006.

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• If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

  Robert Harris

  Portraits, Would Be, Rich

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• It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

  Robert Harris

  "Robert Harris: 'The Ghost' of Tony Blair". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 31, 2007.

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• It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

  Robert Harris

  Real, Writing, Done

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• Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.

  Robert Harris

  History, Work Out, Together

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• Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

  Robert Harris

  Tape, Stores, Scales

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