Dolly Parton Quotes
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.
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You can only go into science because you're interested in it.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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Protesting near a fence, approaching a fence, damaging a fence, climbing a fence or crossing a fence is not are reason to kill someone. But Israel has ordered it's soldiers to use lethal force. This is criminal.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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I feel that destiny is a mixture of preparation and luck. You can be very lucky, but it is useless if you're not prepared. You can be prepared, but it is useless if you're not lucky.1
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There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.
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I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.
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I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.
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Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
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I love painting and have a need to do it.
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The people's voice, as I say, is the voice of God.
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You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.
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The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.'
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I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.
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The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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I'm somebody who works within Cambodia, with Cambodians. I work alongside the artists and society to work from within, so that is the focus, and from that I hope everybody who believes in democracy, in certain freedoms, will get louder, will grow their voices.
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When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
