Dolly Parton Quotes
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
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Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.
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You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.
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There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind
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He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.
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My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.
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When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.
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For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
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In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.
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The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
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You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.
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Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
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And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
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In justice is all virtues found in sum.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual relations. Physical love, so unjustifiably decried, makes everyone show, down to the least detail, all he has of goodness and self-sacrifice, so that he shines even in the eyes of those nearest to him.
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The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.
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It's so English to hate L.A. I'd like to say I love it, but I don't. It's such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn't spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they're so crazy and wild and liberal, and they're not!
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Leave something good in every day.
