Dolly Parton Quotes
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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
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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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As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.
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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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I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.
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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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One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, "You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you."
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Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?
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Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.
