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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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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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.
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If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.
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Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.
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Leave something good in every day.
