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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It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.
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Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
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Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
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When you understand spiritual law, then you realize that everything you give, good or bad, will in fact come back to you tenfold and that's just the way it is. You give someone flowers and the person you are ultimately giving to is yourself.
