Michael Parkinson Quotes

#1. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

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#2. I was a purist bore.

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#3. 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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#4. I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

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#5. So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

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#6. No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.

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#7. Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

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#8. When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.

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#9. In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

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#10. It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.

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#11. Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.

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#12. It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.

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#13. Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

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#14. I'm very fond of piano players.

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