Nicholas Parsons Quotes
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
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There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.
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I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.
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People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!'
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My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
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Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
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Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you're willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole.
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Why do people use the word ‘kids’? It makes children sound like small goats.
