Robert Parker quote: "This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."

There are technical ebbs and flows in the market and this is a technical bounce.
ROBERT PARKER

He is a very dangerous individual and we are very glad to have him back in custody.
ROBERT PARKER

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm...
ROBERT PARKER

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.
ROBERT PARKER

Their Spenser, Robert Urich, is big, graceful, good-looking and young (a runner-up in the Robert B. ...
ROBERT PARKER

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I ...
ROBERT PARKER

I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my life writing about a ch...
ROBERT PARKER

Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had ...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
ROBERT B. PARKER

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I&...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell...
ROBERT B. PARKER

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Pearl was hurring around my apartment, sniffing everything, including Rich Beaumont and Patty Giacom...
ROBERT B. PARKER

I pulled the MG in beside him at the curb and he got in.
"This thing ain't big enough for eithe...
ROBERT B. PARKER

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading publ...
ROBERT B. PARKER

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon."
I shrugged. "The ways of...
ROBERT B. PARKER

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?"
"Not much luck," Paul said. "I'...
ROBERT B. PARKER

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there w...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?"
"No. They only say that I'm goo...
ROBERT B. PARKER

After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer a...
ROBERT B. PARKER

...You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me....
ROBERT B. PARKER

There is nothing beautiful about perfection; those imperfections that you hate so much about yoursel...
PARKER

Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pa...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine a...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

There is no question that Australia's most dramatic assault on the world market has been with it...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliabl...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which Cali...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is be...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television c...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midwa...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finess...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn't even imported to the Un...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are some...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everyth...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordea...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I lau...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

The best Chateauneuf-du-Papes are among the most natural expressions of grapes, place and vintage. C...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

As I've grown older, I've developed an appreciation for wines that are immediately gratifyin...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be cla...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia....
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by th...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started wr...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.

When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist....
TREY PARKER

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
GILBERT PARKER

We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singin...
NATE PARKER

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you&...
PARKER STEVENSON

In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off th...
PARKER YOUNG

I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high inten...
PARKER YOUNG

I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I pla...
PARKER YOUNG

Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables a...
PARKER YOUNG

I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, ...
PARKER YOUNG

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philo...
PARKER YOUNG

I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I...
PARKER YOUNG

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
PARKER STEVENSON

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong...
PARKER STEVENSON

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
PARKER STEVENSON

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-c...
PARKER STEVENSON

I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
PARKER STEVENSON

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
PARKER STEVENSON

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in...
PARKER STEVENSON

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with pe...
PARKER STEVENSON

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say ...
PARKER STEVENSON

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that i...
PARKER STEVENSON

During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought t...
PARKER STEVENSON

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it w...
PARKER STEVENSON

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewe...
PARKER STEVENSON

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, ...
PARKER STEVENSON

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyon...
PARKER STEVENSON

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeas...
PARKER STEVENSON

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
PARKER STEVENSON

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initiall...
PARKER STEVENSON

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style,...
PARKER STEVENSON

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and...
PARKER STEVENSON

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scr...
PARKER STEVENSON

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.
PARKER STEVENSON

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette...
PARKER STEVENSON

I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
PARKER POSEY

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel l...
PARKER POSEY

Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
PARKER POSEY

I love bayou life.
PARKER POSEY

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old sch...
PARKER POSEY

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to mo...
PARKER POSEY

Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his...
PARKER POSEY

They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I do...
PARKER POSEY

I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from ...
PARKER POSEY

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you ...
PARKER POSEY

I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
PARKER POSEY

The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
PARKER POSEY

It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And ...
PARKER POSEY

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the coura...
PARKER POSEY

I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's n...
PARKER POSEY

I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.
PARKER POSEY

I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down th...
PARKER POSEY

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
PARKER POSEY

I care about being creative and expressing myself.
PARKER POSEY

What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's wha...
PARKER POSEY

I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this d...
PARKER POSEY

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, dee...
PARKER POSEY

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers wit...
PARKER POSEY

They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would h...
PARKER POSEY

I like sitting close to windows.
PARKER POSEY

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of thin...
PARKER PALMER

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the...
PARKER PALMER

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be...
PARKER PALMER

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we&...
PARKER PALMER

We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audie...
PARKER PALMER

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, iron...
PARKER PALMER

As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing w...
PARKER PALMER

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop co...
PARKER PALMER

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my l...
PARKER PALMER

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements va...
PARKER PALMER

We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in v...
PARKER PALMER

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
PARKER PALMER

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of &...
PARKER PALMER

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimate...
PARKER PALMER

I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me goin...
MACEO PARKER

People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a...
MACEO PARKER

Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really w...
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

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

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This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

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