Dolly Parton Quotes
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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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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Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.
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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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But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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I hope 'Split Image' educates.
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
