Dolly Parton Quotes
Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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Everyone has the right to their lives and to look the way they want to! Tomorrow I can put on 25 kilos... it's my choice, my body!
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
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When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
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When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'
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Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
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I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.'
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A black belt is what you prove to be, but also what it means in your heart.
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He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
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I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long time but recently realized I don't get anything from it. I told myself it was luxury, but it was really only annoying. I'd rather just watch the same 50 movies over and over.
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I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
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The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.
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Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
