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It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.
Neil Oliver / Historian
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Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.
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Presenter
Television
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I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.
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Dad
Slave
Thousand
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I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other.
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Degrees
Easy
Qualified
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My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.
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Father
Luck
Self
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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 / Historian
Looks
Real
Scotland
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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.
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Just Live
Looks
Week
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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.
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Luck
Millionaire
Planning
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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.
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Book
Television
Writing
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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 / Historian
Ideas
Phones
Years
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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."
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Lines
More Is Better
Too Much
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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.
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Jobs
London
Paper
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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.
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Careers
Wife
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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.
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Thinking
Years
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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.
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Ends
Scotland
Self
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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.
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