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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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
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In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.
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I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
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I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.
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For an artist or an entertainer, it's the ultimate when you can go to the forest when you're done your work and escape.
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Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor.
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All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
