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'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 don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
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I'm impressionable, that's for sure.
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I believe in books.
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You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I just love playing good guys.
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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.
