Dolly Parton Quotes

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

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• A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

  

  Mako
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Stereotypes

• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • School
  • Love
  • Kids

• I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Different
  • Real
  • Feeling

• I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Film
  • Everything

• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Test
  • Member
  • Became

• I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Star
  • Forever
  • Thought

• As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Time
  • Win

• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • You
  • Teach
  • Old

• Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Kind
  • Nothing
  • Ever

• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence

• The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life, what is seen as good and evil. Good and evil are defined by religions.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Art

• The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • God
  • Family
  • Small

• The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

  

  Jimmy Rushing
  • Music
  • Business

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

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Good
  • Forever

• Creating a set list is like making a running order for an album. Certain things get pitted against one another that make more sense. One song sets another one off, or it might diminish it. You're just constantly looking for the next thing that's gonna make sense in a particular place.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Song
  • Running

• When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Person
  • Hell
  • Survived

• I eat a lot of junk food, because that's what's usually available at 1:00am when I'm all done working.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Done
  • Food

• A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Song

• It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Poetry

• I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

  

  Dolly Parton
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