Dolly Parton Quotes
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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You have to follow that next step.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.
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A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
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I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.
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When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
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If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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Movies tend to be dislocated and non-linear in their process.
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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
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“Oh!" cried the young man. "A little deaf child! How sweet! We should adopt her and teach her to write symphonies. She'll be all the rage in town. I'll buy her a powdered wig and a tricorne!
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I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.
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Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.
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I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
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All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
