Dolly Parton Quotes
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It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.
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I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
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I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.
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If I am comfortable with my co-star, then that always shows in my performances.
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Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.
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We had to work five back-to-back shows, forty-five minutes on, fifteen minutes off. That's just an awful lot of singing.
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I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
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What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.
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Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
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Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.
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I need the gays at the shows. If I don't have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they're the best core audience you can have.
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Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
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Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
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No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
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I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.
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Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows
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Some of my best friends have written Broadway shows. Allee Willis and Brenda Russell wrote The Color Purple which has been recently revived on Broadway. That to me is such a different hat that you have to wear, but music is music. A Broadway show is something I would love to have the opportunity to do.
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We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.
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When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.
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I'm a show-off basically... always have been.
