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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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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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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Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.
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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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The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.
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Love is when you let someone be the way they are.
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In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.
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I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.
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We want to make sure that the kind of ballpark we agreed upon will be built, that it can be paid for as we have agreed, that the team be able to exercise adequate control over the ballpark site, that we understand the limits of the legislative power to further rewrite contracts we enter into and that the balance of burdens and benefits agreed to by us in mediation is readdressed, since it has been seriously disrupted by the legislation.
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There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.