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
  • Never

• 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

• Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

  

  Patrick White
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Running

• 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

• The argument by the anti-gay-marriage crowd is so absurd, so internally contradictory, and so awash in unproven assertions that it is difficult to take it as anything more than a construct cobbled together by people who just don't like those people.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • People
  • Together
  • Marriage

• By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events in the book were happening, I knew I'd probably write about them one day. I didn't want to. I'd studied fiction, and I was committed to establishing myself as a fiction writer first.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I get this call and they go, you know, 'Do you want to do the finals?' and I go, 'Yeah, I guess, I've never, never done the finals.' Especially for somebody who's done as many thousands of games as I have, it kind of takes you one step further.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Done

• Men were created to have facial hair like women were created to be smooth-faced. Well, not all women. I've seen pockets where that's not the case, and that's not good.

  

  Jase Robertson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

  

  Fred Allen
  • God
  • Movie
  • Church

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Running
  • Gay
  • Closets