Dolly Parton Quotes

I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

Dolly Parton

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• I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Child
  • Tree
  • Physical

• I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Game
  • Day

• People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • Done
  • May

• When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'

  Gail Devers
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Effort

• I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Me
  • Hit
  • Leon

• Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Up
  • Today
  • Nothing

• I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Career
  • Change
  • Speak

• I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Like
  • Fan
  • Hide

• Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

  

  Usher
  • Work
  • Age
  • Play

• Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Seriously

• No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Long
  • Friend
  • Sea

• Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Earth

• If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • Struggle
  • Pool

• 'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • People

• George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Work
  • Money
  • Together

• My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Trying
  • Single
  • Wife

• Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

  

  Brian Van Holt
  • She

• You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man, have you heard this song?' then I don't think it's worth it. The only way to get your music out there, is for someone to tell their friends about it.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Song

• I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself.

  

  Keegan Allen
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Training

• I don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did write one on Jackie Robinson, who was playing ball in the 20th century.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Sports

• Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you can't find someone reliable to do a deal with, you simply don't do the deal at all.

  

  Amity Shlaes
  • Growth

• I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Inspire