Dolly Parton Quotes

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

Dolly Parton

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• I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Look
  • Routine

• A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Done
  • Art

• I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Women
  • Done
  • Want

• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Good
  • Done
  • Career

• Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm's way.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Country
  • Done

• I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as independent artists and who have been - to be brutally honest - much more prolific than I was able to be.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stupid

• Whenever I meet Ukridge’s Aunt Julia I have the same curious illusion of having just committed some particularly unsavoury crime and-what is more-of having done it with swollen hands, enlarged feet, and trousers bagging at the knee on a morning when I had omitted to shave.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Done
  • Morning
  • Aunt

• After 'Kelis Was Here,' I was done. I was like, 'I will never put out another record again; I hate this business; I hate all these people.' I was in this race that I didn't even realise that I was in.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • People
  • Done
  • Business

• I don't listen to music when I write. If I do, I usually end up giving it my whole attention, which means, unfortunately, I don't get much work done!

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I haven't done lots of horror.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Done

• At a certain point, when I let go and was done - when I stopped and could say I was blessed and thankful to be a champion, when I finally enjoyed life from this different perspective - that's when I healed. Letting go healed me.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Life
  • Different
  • Done

• I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Work
  • Done

• We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

  

  Brother Lawrence
  • Work
  • God
  • Done

• But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

  

  Janet McTeer
  • People
  • School
  • Done

• Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • Done
  • Career

• Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

  

  Mark Harmon
  • Done
  • Business

• My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • Done
  • Father
  • Words

• I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • Experience
  • American
  • History

• We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Commitment

• Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Done
  • Talent
  • Guts