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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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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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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I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.
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I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me.
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She reinvents herself from album to album. I reinvent myself week to week. I get quite bored with things and I don't want to let down my fans.
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When God comes A great noise will pierce us, The day of judgment terribly. Messengers from the door, Wind, and sea, and fire. lightning and thunder A number without flattery. The people of the world groaning Will be concealed.
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.
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One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
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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.
