Michael Parkinson Quotes
So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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I'm very wary of trust, you see.
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Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.
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The two most important words in marriage for me are 'yes, dear.'
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If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
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The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.
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Memory politics are by definition political and shift accordingly. There was a time when both the South Korean left and North Korea were more interested in good relations with Japan than the right here was.
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If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.
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Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'
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Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful... You can be all of these things.'
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So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?
