Dolly Parton Quotes
I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.
Dolly Parton
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback
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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
Ilan Stavans
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
Wendy E. Long
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
Kary Mullis
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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
Garrison Keillor
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
Kate DiCamillo
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
Faith Hill
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It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
Sadie Frost
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
Walter Jon Williams
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
Barry Schwartz
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
Quentin Crisp
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These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
Kamala Harris
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Hannah More
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
M. J. Rose
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
Barbara Bush
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I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
Sam Shepard
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In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.
Meg Cabot
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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.
Plato
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I believe that you can love anyone. I've had relationships with women, I've had relationships with men. I don't think you should be judged based on who you find attractive. Especially guys - gay men, they really have it hard sometimes.
Amber Rose
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In 'Sidney's Comet,' thanks to all the consumerism, all the garbage had to be put in deep space, even though we're not supposed to litter the cosmos - that was an environmental message. Although it was funny, it had an important message.
Brian Herbert
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I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.
Dolly Parton