Michael Parkinson Quotes
For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.
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My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
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I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.
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My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.
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There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.
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By taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.
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There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.
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May the flop be with you.
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.
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You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things.
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She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.
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Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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Go big or go home. You can either stand for what you believe or fall for what you don't. Above all, make a choice for tolerance and love.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.
