Dolly Parton Quotes
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
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Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.
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Give me love, like herCos lately I've been waking up alone.The pain splatters teardrops on my shirt.I told you I'd let them go.
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Here in Florida … we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
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'Move Bitch!'
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The air which is struck with most swiftness by the movable thing is compressed to the greatest degree in itself.
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To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of imagination as it enters and inhabits other lives across time and gender. The glittering, fetid city emerges as a complex metaphor for the human heart’s simultaneous tenderness and capacity for cruelty, its ‘silver glow, a local specialty: filth, disguised as ornament.’ This Venice is unforgettable.
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What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
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I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
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Is forever longer than always?
