Dolly Parton Quotes
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Sports saved my life.
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This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
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I am committed to leveling the playing field and expanding opportunity to all.
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Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.
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I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.
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The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.
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Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you.
