Dolly Parton Quotes
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Musical theatre is my first love.
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All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?
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The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
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I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
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Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
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There were definitely lyrics and they were very meaningful. I think.
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Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.
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I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.
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Carol James, who is my physician's assistant and my right-hand person, frequently teases me by saying, 'It's because women need only half of their brain to think as well as men. That's why you can do this operation on so many women.'
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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Social messaging has become the defining app of the smartphone era. Social payments has been a natural extension of this phenomenon - it's going to be the locus of most communications activity.
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When I was in Canada, the opportunities were huge. For every place I went to, I dreamt of bringing my family, too. When I ate at restaurants, I wished I could let my family experience the food I ate, too.
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the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball
