Dolly Parton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
-
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.
-
If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
-
Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.
-
As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.
-
Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.
-
This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.
-
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
-
Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.
-
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
-
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.
-
I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.
-
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.
-
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
-
The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.
-
I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.
-
We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to point to that. There are too many stories that end happily and say very little about life.
-
All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.
-
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.
-
I can't do nothing just a little.
