Dolly Parton Quotes
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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I'm so proud of this connection that I've made with these young people.
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When I got pregnant, I knew I wasn't anywhere in my career, that I had not arrived. I was still on my adventure, and so I said to the child in my belly, 'I am so happy for you to come, but you should know I'm still on my way, and you'll have to come with me and be in my rucksack.'
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I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.
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People get a kick out of my stupidity.
