Dolly Parton Quotes

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

Dolly Parton

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• I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Running
  • Myself
  • Imagination

• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • American
  • Small

• Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Work
  • Running

• You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Running
  • Always

• I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Team
  • Running
  • Sports

• We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • Gay
  • Look

• I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Black
  • Gay
  • Young

• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Dream
  • Running

• I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Running

• Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Running
  • Brother

• The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Running

• The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Country
  • Running
  • Devil

• People think my family pushed me into running for office. The person who pushed me most not to run for office was my father.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • People
  • Family
  • Father

• I think the gay - the gay/straight alliances in the school are very useful as far as creating understanding among kids and so kids aren't necessarily so stigmatized or demonized for being who they really are.

  

  Jeanne Phillips
  • School
  • Kids
  • Understanding

• Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

  

  Jerry Jeff Walker
  • Business
  • Running

• I'll flip a stupid tire. But I ain't running.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Running
  • Stupid

• Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, 'When are you gonna start running hard?' The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth... Man, I love to run!

  

  Eric Dickerson
  • People
  • Running
  • Wind

• I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Long
  • Fun

• We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

  

  Denis Napthine
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Small
  • Training
  • Goal

• Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

  

  Steve Wynn
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Keep

• I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Running
  • Gay
  • Closets