Dolly Parton Quotes
My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest, as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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The French bourgeois doesn’t dislike shit, provided it is served up to him at the right time.
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'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.
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Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
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George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.
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The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.
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We need to get involved in things that are important to other countries, just as we expect them to participate in things that are important to us.
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Fandom can keep something alive, and fandom can take it down.
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Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole another culture, literally. Mastered it, outsold everybody and he did every kind of record imaginable. He could take any topic and make a song out of it. I haven't seen any artist do that yet.
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I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.
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I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.
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My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
