Michael Parkinson Quotes
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
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I was really fat in school.
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One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.
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The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies is supposed to have subscribed to the Village Voice for six years in an attempt to find out about life in America's rural areas.
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Because he (Elton John) is pushing his face in all the time, and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested, he's incredibly rich, he should just go away, and he's just hoisting his problems onto everybody and working them out publicly and...I've said enough.
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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
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Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.
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That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.
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When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.
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I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.
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I have the full confidence of the coach, and that's extremely important to me.
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From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.
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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
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Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.
