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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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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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 would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
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The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time.
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I've been singing one kind of genre for a long time but have always tried to push to new auras about picking new songs or the same kind of genre but trying to sing it differently, treating it differently.
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We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.
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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.
