Top 52 Tony Parsons Quotes
#1. I never, ever want to be in a position where people are sitting round a table, saying, 'We've got this book. I don't really get it, but we paid for it, so we've got to sell it.' I'm not Tony Parsons; that's not right for me.
Michel Faber
#2. The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.
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#4. I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.
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#5. I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.
Tony Parsons
#6. I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.
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#8. I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.
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#9. I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.
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#10. When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
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#11. He was totally in thrall to the face of the girl in front of him. She stunned him. She paralysed him. Just being in the presence of that face made him pause, his tongue tied with self-consciousness. But she made it easy for him
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#12. And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.
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#13. It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.
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#14. She wasn't the kind who cared about signs, she moved through the world as if she had a right to be there - anywhere, everywhere. Like a woman in a book, like a girl in a song.
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#15. Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.
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#16. When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
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#17. Dont feel too bad, Harry. People break-up everyday, its not the end of the world..
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#18. Sometimes I think that love is a case of mistaken identity.
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#19. Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.
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#20. I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.
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#21. Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
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#22. It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.
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#23. My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.
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#24. Don't you see?" he said. "This could go on for another five years, another ten years, and then where would we be? You want to grow old waiting for something that's never going to happen? Is that what you want?
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#25. What's your name?'Leon said, when waht he meant was - may I love you for ever?
And she told him.
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#26. I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.
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#27. I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.
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#28. You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.
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#29. People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.
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#30. I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
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#31. My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.
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#32. My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
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#33. I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.
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#34. It's funny. You love something and one day it's suddenly gone or changed or lost forever. But somehow that doesn't stop your loving. Maybe that's how you know it's the real thing.
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#35. All that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.;
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#36. My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.
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#38. I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.
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#39. The thing about cancer is that it can always exceed your worst expectations. There is something pornographic about cancer's ability to confound your imagination. Whatever new obscenity cancer comes up with to torment and torture you, it can always do worse tomorrow.
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#40. If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do ...
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#41. The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.
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#42. If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.
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#43. Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.
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#44. Everything ends. It does. Sooner or later. This - all this - it has to end sometime.
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#45. The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
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#46. Sometimes the fog in his eyes would clear, that fog caused by the pain and the killers of pain, and when it cleared, I saw regret and fear in those eyes swimming with tears and I was convinced that this was it, this was the end, this was surely the end.
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#47. A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.
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#48. To love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go
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#50. Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.
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#51. The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.
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#52. There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too.
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