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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Responsibility

• As we continue to drive the benefits of integrating our enterprise skills, capabilities, and experience - what we call operating as 'One Boeing' - we will find new and better ways to engage and inspire employees, deliver innovation that drives customer success, and produce results to fuel future growth and prosperity for all our stakeholders.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Success

• Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.

  

  Jerry Leiber
  • Country
  • Couple
  • Boy

• It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • People
  • Perspective

• Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

  

  Emma McLaughlin
  • Time

• North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

  

  David H. Murdock
  • Thanksgiving

• Negative energy is wasteful.

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • Energy

• No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

  

  Meg Cabot
  • Nice

• When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Real
  • Amazing

• Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wish

• I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Great
  • Music
  • Passion

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Singing
  • Stories
  • Actresses