Neil Oliver Quotes

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

  Neil Oliver

  Looks, Week, Just Live

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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.

  Neil Oliver

  Real, Scotland, Looks

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

  Neil Oliver

  Father, Self, Luck

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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 how that will happen.

  Neil Oliver

  Luck, Planning, Millionaire

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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 job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

  Neil Oliver

  Jobs, Careers, Wife

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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

  Neil Oliver

  Dad, Slave, Thousand

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.

  Neil Oliver

  Father, Self, Kitchen

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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 better and too much is just right."

  Neil Oliver

  Lines, Too Much, More Is Better

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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 was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it.

  Neil Oliver

  Self, Scotland, Ends

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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

  Neil Oliver

  Television, Plans, Presenter

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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 the accompanying book.

  Neil Oliver

  Book, Writing, Television

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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

  Neil Oliver

  Happens

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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 I thought the internet was the future.

  Neil Oliver

  Jobs, London, Paper

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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. Just because you had a series last year, doesn't mean you will have one next. But I am quite happy with that.

  Neil Oliver

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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 lost more than one over the years.

  Neil Oliver

  Phones, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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

  Neil Oliver

  Degrees, Easy, Qualified

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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