Richard Parsons Quotes
I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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I am married.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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There is a growing interest in team ownership and promoting sports beyond cricket in India. I always felt it is important to encourage other sports, especially those that bring communities together and promote active lifestyles to Indian youth.
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The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.
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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
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I'm always looking for good things to do.
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I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.
