Dolly Parton Quotes

In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.

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• Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Government
  • Parent

• What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

  

  Tasha Smith
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• One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Family
  • Experience

• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Man
  • Gay

• If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

  

  Ed Stoppard
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• There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
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  • Girls

• I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Good
  • Best
  • New York

• You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • Movie
  • Want
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• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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  • inspirational

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
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• I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.

  

  Patrick Collison
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• The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent.

  

  Sam Kean
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• My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
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• Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Society
  • Change

• People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• If you're sick, watch funny movies.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• It was in the '80s, so I guess big hair and high bangs. And I had so many gummy bracelets! While we were doing 'Full House,' we were like, 'You know, in 10 years, we're going to look back on this and think this is horrible.' But everyone looked like that!

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
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• Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Work
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• Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

  

  Diogenes
  • Lust
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• It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Business
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• In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.

  

  Dolly Parton
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