Dolly Parton Quotes

I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

Dolly Parton

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• Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Guy

• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Guilty

• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

  

  Randy West
  • Real
  • Game
  • Career

• Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Real
  • Happiness
  • Goal

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Loved

• For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Insurance
  • Texas

• Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Mistake

• I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Effort

• The flaws, the mistakes I make – that's the real me.

  

  Nas
  • Real
  • Me
  • Mistakes

• So on and onwe walked without thinking of restpassing craters, passing fire,under the rocking sky of '41tottering crazy on its smoking columns.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
  • Fire

• Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • Up
  • Women
  • Real

• It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves...

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Important
  • Real

• The deepest thinking is humble. It is only concerned that the flame of truth which it keeps alive should burn with the strongest and purest heat; it does not trouble about the distance to which its brightness penetrates.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Distance

• I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Song

• Class is real. It can't be faked.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Real

• It's a bit of a cliche, but I think girls like to get flowers. I think books are quite romantic, too. If you can find an interesting book, that brings something out in your partner that can be very romantic.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Book
  • Interesting
  • Romantic

• As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Mistake

• A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Hope
  • Self-Serving
  • Presidential memoirs

• Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

  

  Alberto Korda
  • Picture
  • Forget
  • Camera

• I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Magic