Michael Parkinson Quotes
When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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'A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.
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'I suppose that's what we do in death⎯⎯⎯sleep in wonder.'
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
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Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.
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Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
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I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.
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I believe in 'intelligence,' and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it-an I.Q. or the like.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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We have to produce a high-quality show, but we have less and less time and money to do it. If you are using the tapeless approach to save money, you will.
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In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.
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I meet and talk to women from every corner of this planet, and I can find beauty in each and every one of them.
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When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.
