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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Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
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'Mad Men' is celebrating a time that no longer exists.
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Dogs and humans are symbiotic species. We need each other.
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Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
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In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.
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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?
