Dolly Parton Quotes
I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
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To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
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I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.
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Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.
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It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.
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The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
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I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
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Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.
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The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.
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We had no local representation whatsoever. They just said this is what is good for the listeners.
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I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.
