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Robert Harris Quotes

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: March 7, 1957

Topics

Unexpected Career Fluke Literary

I've always been a big guy, whether it's been a fat kid, a fat young adult, or a fat adult. I was always sort of... I guess the term would be 'popular.' I never dealt with a lot of name-calling or any of the bullying you'd think a fat kid might have to deal with.

Bullying Think Fat You Young Never

Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help shape what comes next.

Space Help Bad White Special Shape

Good things will come from self-expression.

Good Good Things Will Things Come

In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion's share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.

Lion Win Think Thought Voting Out

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

Politics People Never Things Promise

I love my pets, and I'm a big animal lover. I also enjoy the nature and countryside.

Nature Love Animal Enjoy Big Pets

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

Life Stress You Nothing Accept Will

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next - and how what other people are saying affects us - that we completely lose sight of other people. This is a problem because people are complicated. You can't hope to understand someone until you focus all of your attention in his or her direction.

Travis Bradberry

Hope Focus People Saying Direction

Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did 'Elm Street' - I'd probably be on a psychiatrist's couch saying: 'Freddy ruined me.' But I'd already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre.

Me Theatre Saying Done Street Years

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.

Me Song Easy Always Melody Varies

I never really planned on any of this being a career; all I knew for sure was that I wanted to create, I wanted to play music, and I wanted to share music.

Music Career Create Play Never Sure

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

People You Expect

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