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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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 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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I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams - Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.
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The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.
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I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
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It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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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.
