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MACEO PARKER
When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap pro...
MACEO PARKER
I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift...
MACEO PARKER
I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
MACEO PARKER
You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what...
MACEO PARKER
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
GILBERT PARKER
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
CHARLIE PARKER
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't...
CHARLIE PARKER
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it...
DOROTHY PARKER
What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
ED PARKER
My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.
TREY PARKER
When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. ...
GRAHAM PARKER
When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and ...
TREY PARKER
This sale brings the excellent partnership that we have enjoyed with Marriott International to a clo...
ALAN PARKER
I hope it goes through.
ALAN PARKER
We're the demonstration project for the state, so everybody's looking at us.
ALAN PARKER
I tell my son to avoid that area, because it is extremely dangerous.
ALAN PARKER
People should focus their energy on developing a taste for dark chocolate, because its high cocoa co...
ALAN PARKER
And this film was not meant to be a political diatribe. Hopefully it's balanced, for people to make ...
ALAN PARKER
It's probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do, ... just being away from my kids and my family....
ALAN PARKER
Thank God that he brings all the troops and my son home safely. Thank God,
ALAN PARKER
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. I've never act...
ALAN PARKER
Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that t...
ALAN PARKER
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of...
CHARLIE PARKER
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
DOROTHY PARKER
Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
JOHN PARKER
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER
The friends I made have slipped and strayed.
And who's the one that cares
A trifling lot and...
DOROTHY PARKER
Work is the province of cattle.
DOROTHY PARKER