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

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• 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
  • Texas
  • Insurance

• 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

• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Feminist

• 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

• In real life, I'm the type of girl who doesn't take herself too seriously. I'm very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• 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

• Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Wonderful

• When you go for something because you're curious about it, you get psyched up about the chance of getting into it. It's like an actor meets a role, and you slip into that body and see what happens, to experience certain conditions, to adopt a certain character. Even shooting is a study of the character. I think both the character and the actor, and eventually the filmmaker - myself - are finding a way to accept their environment and being accepted and feel comfortable of themselves.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Life
  • Children
  • Fear

• I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

  

  Alfred Kahn
  • Cost
  • Wings
  • Planes

• 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