Dolly Parton Quotes

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

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• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Knowledge
  • Stress
  • Sympathy

• 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.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Sweet

• 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.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• All the sounds of the earth are like music.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Like

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Dirty

• I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Popular
  • Master
  • Cringe

• 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.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Said
  • Wrote
  • Memoirs

• 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.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • World
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Ben Saunders

• I don't like to talk about my personal life.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Life

• 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.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Long
  • Children

• My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Simple

• I enjoyed working at McDonald's.

  

  Shania Twain

• I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

  

  Jim Lehrer
  • Business
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Compassion

• Why did I surround my daughter with these pleasant, soothing lies? Because I wanted her not to feel alone. Just as Mama had always sent me the things she did not have-the cake when she was hungry, the gloves when she was cold-I tried to give Angela the things that I had lost: a family, a secure place in the world, a normal life.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Family
  • Daughter
  • Hungry

• Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Money
  • You
  • Period

• When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Always
  • Big
  • Yard

• 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.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Life
  • Great
  • Men

• I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Hungry
  • Grit