Dolly Parton Quotes

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Dolly Parton

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• Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Husband

• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Natural
  • Pink
  • Lovely

• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Natural
  • Old
  • Admiration

• Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Natural

• I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Cooking

• All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Desire
  • Natural

• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Law
  • Government
  • Natural

• I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Like
  • Cooking
  • Pay

• What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Different
  • Love

• Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

  

  Sade Adu
  • World
  • Food
  • Lost

• The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

  

  Washington Irving
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Natural

• I'm not a natural joiner.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Natural

• My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

  

  Ina Garten
  • World
  • She
  • Job

• I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Parents
  • Weird
  • Same

• I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

  

  Al Roker
  • Family
  • Cooking

• No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

  

  Masaharu Morimoto
  • Cooking

• I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Food
  • Like
  • Cooking

• This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Up
  • Together
  • Past

• Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

  

  William Godwin
  • Life
  • Men
  • Memories

• I don't trust anyone who does their own hair. I don't think it's natural.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Natural

• My life is about family and friends as well as work.

  

  John Rocha
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

  

  David Hackett Fischer
  • Fighting
  • Winning
  • Americans

• Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Cooking
  • Natural