Dolly Parton Quotes

I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.

Dolly Parton

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• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • America
  • Dream

• It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Love
  • Character
  • Dream

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Love
  • Character
  • Dream

• Competing in London would be a dream come true.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • True
  • Dream
  • London

• Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Inspiration
  • Mysterious
  • Blessing

• We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Blessing

• Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dream

• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Dream
  • Running

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Fame and fortune is a magnet.It can pull you far away from homeWith a dream in your heart you're never alone.Dreams turn into dust and blow awayAnd there you are without a friend

  

  Hal David
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Alone

• The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • American
  • Dream
  • Blessed

• The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Work
  • Accomplishment

• That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Up
  • Accomplishment

• My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Trying
  • Dream

• Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Imagination

• Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

  

  Bobby Hull
  • Done
  • True
  • Guy

• One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

  

  Elle Varner
  • Work
  • Dream

• It was always my dream to live in New York.

  

  Alex Sharp
  • Live
  • Dream

• Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

  

  Chris Ware
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation’s heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.

  

  Daniel O'Connell
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Dream

• I think my dream would be to move into film, purely because there's a definite beginning, middle and end to a project. I struggle a bit with such a big series that's going all the time.

  

  Jessica Raine
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Beginning

• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
  • Need
  • Hours

• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Dream
  • Blessing
  • Accomplishment