Michael Parkinson

Michael Parkinson
Sir Michael Parkinson, CBEis an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He is best known for presenting his long-running television talk show, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007, as well as other talk shows and programmes both in the UK and internationally. He is also known as a radio broadcaster. He has been described by The Guardian as "the great British talkshow host"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth28 March 1935
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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 was very shy, a man uneasy with the fame that came with the job.
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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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It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.
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a bloody good comedian and a lovely man.
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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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Students recognized that this would help them; we didn't have to tell them.
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He's our biggest repository of useless knowledge. National Icon, National Treasure, and National Dustbin.
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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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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.
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Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.
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Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.
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I'm very fond of piano players.