Norman Parkinson Quotes
I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
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To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
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I always feel that I compete with myself.
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I like meat and carbohydrates.
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I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
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People have always taken photos of themselves, either with camera timers or by handing their Nikons over to strangers in foreign countries and then paying large sums to get them back.
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After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
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The media cause more problems than they do good.
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It's always a thrill to walk through a Broadway stage door.
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When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
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I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
