Dolly Parton Quotes
I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
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I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
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Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
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This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.
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My mother taught me to believe in ghosts: to use a Ouija board, have seances, and leave little offerings out for those who have passed.
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I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.
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In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'
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The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
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I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
