Dolly Parton Quotes
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
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There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
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Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
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For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.
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The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
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You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.
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When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.
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“And I though about people all over the world, having panic attacks. We all must, right? Even those with the soundest of mind must come face to face, sometimes, with the fact that we will die one day. What varies is how we cope with it.”
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Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.
