Dolly Parton Quotes

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

Dolly Parton

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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.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Him

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Time
  • Live
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Work
  • School
  • Money

• I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Always
  • First
  • Something

• The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Like
  • Right

• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Gift
  • Whom

• 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.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Christian
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Change
  • Win

• 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.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Bounce

• By all that's good and glorious.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Delroy Lindo
  • Life
  • Help
  • Wish

• 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.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Mind

• Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Basketball

• Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

  

  Jill Abramson

• I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

  

  Billy Wilder

• I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Wish

• Every time I see something about the Wild West, I'm reminded that our version of history may not be what really happened.

  

  James McBride
  • Time
  • May
  • History

• When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

  

  Francisco Costa
  • Everybody
  • Fantastic
  • Contributes

• Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Think

• It might just be me, but it's tough when you get drivers that don't stay where they should be.

  

  Scott Dixon
  • Drivers

• I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Singing
  • Stories
  • Actresses