Dolly Parton Quotes
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.
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You have to go as hard as you possibly can, or it's going to be weak. Whenever I find myself not committing fully to a character, it's not as funny. It doesn't have that clear point of view, and you find yourself wandering all over the place, whereas committed characters make strong choices that are clear to the audience.
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I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.
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If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.
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The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It's much harder.
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I don't want to write a book; I don't want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.
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I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.
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It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.
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It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them; the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations, and this speed is about a kilometre per second.
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While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.
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Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.
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Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?
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It's like an OCD thing, it's not as much something I enjoy. If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.
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A lot of people think I'm a comedian.
