Dolly Parton Quotes

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

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• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Challenge
  • Stories
  • Characters

• I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Stories
  • Songs

• I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Age
  • Struggle
  • Stories

• I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Way
  • Simple
  • Fashion

• I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Ideas
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  • Media

• I don't want to end up losing my soul.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Want

• I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!

  

  Bette Midler
  • House
  • Stories
  • News

• In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Die
  • Mean
  • Bible

• Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Gay
  • Stories

• The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Tree
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  • Holes

• It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Reason

• In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Truth
  • Past
  • Ends

• I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Want

• An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

  

  Anna Hutchison
  • God
  • Ends
  • Strife

• All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Littles
  • Dancing
  • Honey

• When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes.

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • Littles
  • Clothes
  • Boat

• I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kiss

• I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• '9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

  

  Dolly Parton
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