Dolly Parton Quotes

I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

Dolly Parton

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• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Know
  • Drawing

• My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Great
  • Conversation

• Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Men
  • Children
  • Morning

• I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors do not approach us with diverse roles.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Different
  • Love

• 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 an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Struggle
  • E-mail

• I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• People always say, 'Is it tough getting up at four in the morning?' I'm not terrible with that, but the weird thing for me is that I start to feel like a 3-year-old in need of a nap at about 7:30 at night; and, at 9:30, my head is teetering like that.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• It's our country. I have a lot of pride in it and the flag and what that's about and all the people who fought for it.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • People
  • Country
  • Pride

• And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Different
  • Question

• I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • People
  • Time
  • Energy

• I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

  

  Leah Ward Sears
  • America
  • Player
  • Democracy

• My life is so different because of 'Waitress.' The people that I'm close to, the things I do professionally, my colleagues, my best friend and my boyfriend - like, all of these things have come to me because of the show. And it's really beautiful.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • People
  • Team
  • Games

• There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World
  • Different

• At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Business
  • Worry
  • Outdoor

• As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

  

  Daymond John
  • Business
  • Entrepreneur

• Who isn't a fan of Jeff Bridges? And he is such a unique character. I can't think of anybody who's quite like him. He was a lot of fun to be around, just personally.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Unique

• I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Children
  • Struggle