Dolly Parton Quotes

It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

Dolly Parton

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• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Afraid

• I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Think
  • Star

• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Different
  • Man

• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Life
  • Real
  • Soul

• I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Real
  • Same

• For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Different
  • May
  • Support

• Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one. (15)

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Failure

• Every time I go out to do shows, it just becomes a little bit more real and a little bit more full, so I'm excited just to see it hit its next level.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Time
  • Real

• When you get into these NFL rushers - the power, the speed, the bull rush, and all those kind of things - it's just different than college football.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Different
  • Power
  • College

• Between New York and L.A., and all of us who are actors, I feel like we're just one big, cast repertory company, all running back and forth between the coasts and between different shows. There is a wealth of great character actors, who show up, here and there, on different shows. I love the fact that we're allowed to do that.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Real
  • Value
  • Singing

• You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Real

• As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.

  

  Emily Procter
  • Different
  • Nature
  • Parents

• I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Music
  • Different
  • Age

• I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Different
  • Nature
  • Reality

• Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • World
  • Dream
  • Small

• Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit

• Every single person on the planet has equal humanity.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Single
  • Humanity

• Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face.

  

  Walter Breuning
  • Change
  • Faces
  • Embrace

• It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Different
  • Real
  • Form