Dolly Parton Quotes
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.
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Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.
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My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.
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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
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Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.
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My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.
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When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it has to be a little more fleshed out as a song. And then where it goes is more collaborative, obviously; it's more political possibly, certainly more a conscious process than a subconscious process, which the painting can be.
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People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.
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Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.
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I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.
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If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.
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You don't create a magazine for your readers. You don't take a poll, you know, like the politicians do, and find out what they're thinking and what they want... You're supposed to be telling people what the hell you think is exciting and dynamic and thought-provoking, and do it - and do it your way.
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People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.
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I try not to go around looking like a hag.
