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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I really love having an awareness.
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Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.
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Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
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I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story yet in fact are nothing, nothing of mine, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion, only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even she who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.
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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.
