Dolly Parton Quotes
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.
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At a wedding last week, my wife said: 'Isn't the bride beautiful ?' When I responded by saying, 'Yeah, but her blowjobs aren't half as good as yours', she got all pissed off. Women - they can't take a compliment!
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My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
