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 became an entrepreneur as a child. I liked the art of the deal whether I was mowing lawns or selling candy or promoting clubs at the age of 16. I understood early on the importance of knowing my numbers and surrounding myself with the best people.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
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God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You're doing
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
