Tony Parsons
Tony Parsons
years parent gone
My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
kids thinking parent
I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.
sacrifice parent house
My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.
fighting british ashamed
The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.
kids matter money-matters
When you have a kid, money matters.
school grammar public-school
Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
stars dad north-star
I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.
sweet toughness
I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.
hate reading casinos
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
tattoo looks individual
A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.
thinking police waste
I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.
thinking age
I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.
healthy four hours
I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.
teenage years trying
My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.