Michael Parkinson Quotes
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
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So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
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We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
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When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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I've been really impressed with the way he has come back from the Under 21 World Cup and taken his form into club rugby.
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We're going to have to wait that out, ... But if I had to guess right now, I think it would make it tough for him to make it back for Monday night. We'll just have to work our way through that situation and see what's the best way of handling that.
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It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.
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In a way, it plays on your heart a little bit.
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As she said goodbye, she said: ""Any good parties, invite me down."" I said ""Yes,"" but there was no way. I knew full well that if I invited her down, she would dance me under the table.
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I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
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There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.
