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.
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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.
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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.
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I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
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I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
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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.
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I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
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I don't want to end up losing my soul.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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The bark on the tree was just a little softer.
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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.
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In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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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.
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An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
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So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.
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I would love to keep playing roles where I get to inspire young women, and I get to uplift them and tell their stories and tell important stories that haven't been told.
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Unfortunately, the latest events have shown that we don't have it.
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Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
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'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.
