Dolly Parton Quotes
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.
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I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.
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Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.
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Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
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My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal.
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I enjoyed working at McDonald's.
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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
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Boston is pretty infamous for race relations.
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!
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Despite all the divisions and discord within our democracy, I see the grit and determination and common goodness of the American people every single day –- and that makes me more confident than ever about our country’s future.
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I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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Chefs get sucked into the trap of 'fine dining' because some guides make it central to their ratings system and because some customers have been trained to focus their expectations on the trappings and not on the food. It's all a gigantic waste of energy.
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The first Christian author we have is the Apostle Paul.
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I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
