Dolly Parton Quotes
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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I totally regret as a German what happened at this point of history. But when people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for the Holocaust? No, because I'm born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say I'm responsible, but as a country we are responsible.
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The first part of this statement is quoted without attribution as early as 1897, and is widely attributed to Irving separately as well as in this joined form, but in research for Wikiquote, no original source has yet been found.
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At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.
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My mother always bought our birthday gifts.
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Anybody that has followed closely what I've been doing can see from 'Home,' being as big a hit as it was, it kind of opened the door for me to try new things musically.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
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I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
