Dolly Parton Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
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I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.
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I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
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We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.
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People have to do what they want to do.
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I'm kind of putting my toe back in the water and seeing how it feels. We're going to be doing stuff we haven't done for years and years and years. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this stuff flies.
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You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
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People criticize a woman for everything - like, I get criticized for how my hair looks when I go grocery shopping or the fact that I don’t wear makeup when I get my nails done.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?
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I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
