Dolly Parton Quotes
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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By all that's good and glorious.
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I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.
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In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.
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Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.
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When I get on TV, I'm going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I'm going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I'm very aware of all the social stuff going on.
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Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.
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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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I can't wish I weren't something that I am.
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I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.
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Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.
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It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.
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People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.
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Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
