Dolly Parton Quotes
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I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.
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Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.
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This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.
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You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
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Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me.
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Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.
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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.
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Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.
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Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.
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Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.
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Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?
