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.

Dolly Parton

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• I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • High
  • Water

• 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.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Things
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Why

• Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Black
  • Everything
  • Ships

• Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • World
  • Important
  • Better

• I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Going
  • Work Ethic

• 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.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • New
  • Going
  • Bring

• I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Dream
  • Lucky

• Most of us get our history through story.

  

  Yann Martel
  • History
  • Story
  • Through

• 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.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Evil

• Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • History
  • Control
  • Practice

• What did this long-range goodwill mean, and what did it say about the social contract that allowed a rich man to free all of his descendents from the need to work over the course of almost two centuries?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Work
  • Long
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Morning

• The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Experience

• I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Like
  • Doors
  • Hot

• The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.

  

  Clive Davis
  • True
  • Gay

• The self-organizing and self-correcting imprint is on all aspects of reality. So not only was your body formed by this invisible hand, not only does your body continue to work by this invisible hand, but every aspect of your life - emotionally, physiologically, and spiritually - is also programmed to thrive, is also programmed for self-organization and self-correction.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Reality

• My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant to discourage you. If you want it, go and get it. Be willing to work hard, and be patient. Be kind to yourself.

  

  Judith Hoag
  • Advice
  • Patient
  • Work Hard

• It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Friend
  • Enough
  • Friendly

• 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.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Children
  • Kind
  • Purpose