Dolly Parton Quotes
I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.
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I'm a real optimist.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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I'm really comfortable with myself.
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The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.
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I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
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I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
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I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.
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I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.
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How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!
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I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.
