Dolly Parton Quotes
You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.
Quotes to Explore
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
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Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
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You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.
