Dolly Parton Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
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Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives.
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I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'
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People say, "How do you get into the British film industry?" There is no British film industry, there are just people making films and finding their own way. It's not like in the States where there are studios and there's an actual infrastructure to it; there's just nothing here. You make it from scratch a lot of the time.
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When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.
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People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'
