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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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.
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Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.
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One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
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There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.
