16 ordspråk av Michael Parkinson
Michael Parkinson
[But yesterday's tributes painted a portrait of a quiet, private man who never grew accustomed to the limelight that accompanied his success.] He was very shy, ... A man uneasy with the fame that came with the job. A man who liked to observe in the shade. He reminded me of Alec Guinness in that sense. But, my word, when he stood centre stage you'd better watch him.
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a bloody good comedian and a lovely man.
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Even now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic.
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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.
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He was hugely talented and had a regard for the written word. He had a writer's judgement about what did and didn't work. He was not invented by television. He was the finished article when he appeared on television.
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He was very shy, a man uneasy with the fame that came with the job.
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He was very shy. A man uneasy with the fame that came with the job. A man who liked to observe in the shade. He reminded me of Alec Guinness in that sense. But, my word, when he stood centre stage you'd better watch him.
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He's our biggest repository of useless knowledge. National Icon, National Treasure, and National Dustbin.
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I finish every book I start.
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I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.
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I'm delighted... I've never interviewed him before.
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I've been trying to get sober for the last four years, and I keep falling off and I keep getting back on,
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If the music industry has decided I'm influential, then that's their business, ... They tell me that's the case, but I think it would ruin an innocent mind if I were aware of that.
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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.
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It'll be good. You put in your requests and hope that one day he'll say yes.
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