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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I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.
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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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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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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 you're in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can't wait for the weekend, but in the music business, you don't know one day from the next. It's always the weekend.
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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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He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I get a good colour in summer but go really pale in winter, and it genuinely doesn't suit me, as people ask me if I'm ill. As well as making me look a bit better, I often have to be tanned in the middle of winter to do a show or programme, so I've road-tested every fake tan on the market.
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Moral: It all depends.
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There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos.
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
