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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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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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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It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.
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I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could.
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I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.
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It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.
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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?
