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Neil Oliver

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[Wikipedia] Neil Oliver is a Scottish television presenter and author. He has presented several documentary series on archaeology and history, including A History of Scotland, Vikings and Coast. He is also an author of popular history books and historical fiction.

Quotes by Neil Oliver

It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.

Happens

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I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other.

Commentators

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“Ginger people! D'you know what they are? Our aborigines ... that's what! GINGERIGINES! Look at 'em ... they were 'ere first. All…

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I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to…

Before i die

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“Only the rock lasts forever”

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After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it…

Archaeologists

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My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

Example

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I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing…

Book

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It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is…

Crave

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Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

Plans

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I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as…

Company

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My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a…

Careers

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My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed,…

Benefits

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“I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men’s…

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I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have…

Ideas

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People looking at what I do from the outside would think it was a secure world I live in, but it isn't.…

Last year

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I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

Bits

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I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

Just live

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I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

Dad

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