Dolly Parton Quotes

I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.

Dolly Parton

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• I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Pay
  • Discussion
  • Fairness

• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Football
  • Player
  • Star

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Lost

• We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Live
  • Period
  • Stars

• Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Star
  • Couple
  • Actor

• When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Stars

• I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Up
  • American
  • Wanted

• The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Advice
  • Wanted
  • Welcome

• Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Stars

• I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

  

  Val Guest
  • Know
  • Stars
  • Bond

• He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Angry

• Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Girl

• It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Period
  • Wanted

• No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Guy
  • Always
  • Wanted

• When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Dad
  • Wanted
  • Farmer

• Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Stars
  • Record
  • Silent

• This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected to tell the truth, to express your thoughts and your feelings, and then other times what was wanted was a lie, a bit of disguise.

  

  Gary L. Blackwood
  • Truth
  • Feelings
  • Wanted

• I'm a guy who has always been a late bloomer on every level. I've always wanted to get into the league as a kid. Who would have thought during my senior year at college that I would be where I am now? It's been a lot of hard work and never stopping.

  

  Kevin Martin
  • College
  • Wanted
  • Senior

• If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Long
  • Want
  • You

• I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Stars
  • Wanted
  • Pay