Dolly Parton Quotes

I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.

Dolly Parton

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• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Find

• If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Player

• I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Research
  • Reaction

• You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Money
  • You
  • Something

• For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Interesting

• I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Fashion

• A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Cool

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Acting

• Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Most

• Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Choose

• San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

  

  Jack London
  • Memories
  • Nothing
  • Gone

• A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Space
  • Fiction

• I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Discovery

• On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Body
  • Workout
  • Friday

• It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Dying

• Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Honesty
  • Treat

• In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Religious
  • Priest
  • Sorcerer

• If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Reaction

• This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Dark

• I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Prayer