Dolly Parton Quotes

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

Dolly Parton

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• I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Hated

• My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Strange

• It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Place
  • Mad
  • Strange

• It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Kind
  • Strange
  • Analysis

• Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Done
  • Movies
  • Broken

• You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Strange

• I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Why
  • Focus
  • Choose

• I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.

  

  Warren Kole
  • People
  • Know
  • Place

• The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Quality
  • Stars
  • Strange

• Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

  

  Jack Nance
  • People
  • Guy
  • Strange

• The strange thing about the Olympics is that delivering on your potential is always quite difficult.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Always
  • Strange
  • Potential

• Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • People
  • Church
  • Strange

• I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Think
  • Always
  • Strange

• It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • May
  • Sick
  • Strange

• My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Respect
  • Enough
  • Accepting

• Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Growing
  • Human
  • Strange

• If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Wonderful
  • Ifs
  • Accepting

• If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Up
  • Black
  • Strange

• Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.

  

  William Stafford
  • May
  • Artist
  • Able

• My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

  

  Antonin Dvorak
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• It’s best to keep your troubles pretty much to yourself, because half the people you tell them to won’t give a damn, and the other half will be glad to hear you’ve got them.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Hear
  • Troubles
  • Damn

• My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.

  

  Juan Pablo Montoya
  • Reputation
  • Aggressive

• Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Strange
  • Accepting
  • Odd