Michael Parkinson Quotes
No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
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Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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I lost my confidence.
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The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.
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I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
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What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
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Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.
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Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
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I won't give up my day job of design.
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When I was thinking of video ideas for this song, I wanted it to reflect the energy of the music and express the big eye roll that 'Sit Here and Cry' is. I had a very specific visual vision for it, and when I saw Sam Siske's reel, I knew he was going to get it.
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I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
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Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.
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My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent.
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Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.
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without you, dearest dearest I couldn't see or hear or feel or think - or live - I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
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A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings
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My success has a lot to do with Mischa. He was the one who always used to practise with me when I was little, when I was a junior.
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John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.
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I was in the sixth grade and living in Germany, when I was hanging out late with some friends. I turned around, and there's a dude dressed up as Michael Myers following us all the way home. It was the scariest thing ever, and it always reminds me of Halloween. In my mind, I was so young, so I really thought it was Mike Myers following me home.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.
