Dolly Parton Quotes

It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.

Dolly Parton

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• I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Calm

• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Remember
  • Wife
  • Best

• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

  

  Barry White
  • Strong
  • Families
  • Brothers

• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Speak
  • Act

• Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Ambition
  • Meaningful

• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Reflection

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Father
  • Me
  • King

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Up
  • Career
  • Language

• I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Awareness

• It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Laugh

• I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Country
  • Living
  • Italy

• My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Own

• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Sick

• Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Life
  • Country
  • Why

• I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Home
  • Persons
  • Still

• In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Important
  • Science
  • Feeling

• For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things, trying to cross different genres, and dipping my toes into comedy and drama and action here and there. Fortunately, as I've been working, the industry has also changed where you're able to dip your toes into different mediums, where it's not just independent film and studio film, but now you've got TV, and you're able to do all these different things. For me, it's just a matter of continually pushing myself and challenging myself.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Different
  • Important
  • Trying

• I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph symbolic content, narrative content... But it's nothing to worry about!

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Worry

• It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Seems