Dolly Parton Quotes

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

Dolly Parton

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• What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Trying
  • Done

• Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Expressing

• At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Writing
  • Democratic
  • Attitudes

• I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Decision

• Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Career

• I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Giving

• I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Grow

• I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Parents

• As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Writing
  • College
  • Kid

• When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Trying
  • Friends

• The chief impression left by a study of Crowley's life and works is that he wasted an immense amount of time and energy trying to shock everyone he came into contact with, and his dislike of orthodoxy turned him into an unconsciously comic figure, like Don Quixote.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• Therefore, I believe that we both have a heavy obligation to seek earnestly the path to peace. It is in response to that obligation that I am writing directly to you.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Peace

• Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

  

  James Rollins
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Author

• Anne Richard, a senior U.S. State Department official, testified at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing in November 2015 that any Syrian refugee trying to get into the United States is scrutinized by officials from the National Counterterrorism Center, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, State Department and Pentagon.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Trying
  • Senior
  • November

• Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Trying
  • Winning
  • Successful

• At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

  

  James Balog
  • Time
  • Long
  • Age

• Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Running

• I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song