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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Anjali: Oh, wow. I am tripping out that I actually get to work here! Being constantly surrounded by books! Bringing ideas, poems, and manifestoes to the world! How can you stand it?!Jezanna: That reminds me, Lois. The lube shipment just came in.
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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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I don't like to talk about my personal life.
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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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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
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Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
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I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.
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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
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“Best scene in college football is at LSU on a Saturday night.”
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I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
