"My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected."

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Robert Harris

#Careers Quotes #Flukes Quotes #Unexpected Quotes

“Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.”
“People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.”
“I confess to being a frustrated musician.”
“Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.”

Source : "POLITICO interview: Gov. Huntsman". Interview with Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. February 24, 2009.
“You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.”
“The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.”
“Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?”
“How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.”

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