Dolly Parton Quotes
You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.
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The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.
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Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.
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She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.
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When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.
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You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.
