Michael Parkinson Quotes

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

  Michael Parkinson

  Way, Chemistry

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

  Michael Parkinson

  Confidence, Timing

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

  Michael Parkinson

  Men, Years, Married

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• 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.

  Michael Parkinson

  Stars, Real, Fighting

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• 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?

  Michael Parkinson

  Clever, Smart, Boys

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

  Michael Parkinson

  Years, Pay, Feels

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• I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.

  Michael Parkinson

  Memories, Inspiration, Brass Bands

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• Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

  Michael Parkinson

  Way, Chemistry, Made

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

  Michael Parkinson

  Thinking, Would Be, Streets

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• 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.

  Michael Parkinson

  Halloween, Past, Focus

  "Ghostwatch", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• 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.

  Michael Parkinson

  Thinking, Want, Awful

  "Robbie Williams admits booze battle". www.cnn.com. April 9, 2001.

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• 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.

  Michael Parkinson

  Daughter, Son, Reality

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• I'm very fond of piano players.

  Michael Parkinson

  Player, Piano, Affection

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• In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

  Michael Parkinson

  Views, Musician, Jazz

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