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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I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
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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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It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.
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Hilda Reiss was the head of the Everyday Art Gallery. Hilda Reiss came from Germany, had trained at the original Bauhaus in Germany, and her training inspired her to think of anything that she liked as art.
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He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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A lot of people think I'm a comedian.
