Dolly Parton Quotes

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

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• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Help
  • Support

• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Feet
  • Boots

• A bad peace is even worse than war.

  

  Tacitus
  • War
  • Bad
  • Peace

• Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • True
  • Sex

• Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Giving
  • Sword

• I wished I had been born early enough to have been called a Little Englander. It was a term of sneering abuse, but I should be delighted to accept it as a description of myself. That little sounds the right note of affection. It is little England I love.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Abuse

• One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

  

  Margaret Geller
  • Great
  • Universe

• The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Good
  • Forever

• Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Cutting

• Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts off a stress-related neurochemical called noradrenalin.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

  

  Doug Ducey

• After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

  

  Lisa Jakub
  • Career

• Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Beginning
  • Gratitude

• At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

  

  Andrei Platonov
  • Time
  • Night
  • Revolution

• As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee

• Effort should be made to see that the forum-type programs (the 'Today Show,' 'Meet the Press,' etc.) afford at least as much opportunity for supporters of the American system to participate as these programs do for those who attack it.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • American
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Matter
  • Principles
  • Compromise

• The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Great
  • Music
  • Strong

• You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

  

  Dolly Parton
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