Dolly Parton Quotes
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
Laura Osnes -
Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
Laura Linney -
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie -
A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
Narada Michael Walden -
I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
Rachel Kushner
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
Dana Perino -
Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
Barbara Boxer -
Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
Xenophon -
I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'
Chuck Palahniuk -
Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
Jason Alexander -
I developed 'Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied' while I was an Artist in Residence at Kalamazoo College.
Patrisse Cullors
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But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
Donna Tartt -
I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, 'Do not seek approval from the audience.' People don't realize that. You can't do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.
Chadwick Boseman -
I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
Andrew Lincoln -
You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.
Laurence Fox -
My sister and I were born in Chile and raised in the States, and my little brothers were born in the States and raised in Chile after my parents moved back in 1995.
Pedro Pascal -
I like to start the day with yoga. It's the best way of moving into the day.
Behati Prinsloo
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It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
Karen Duffy -
When I was little, I used to watch Disney movies all the time, and it drove me crazy that Cinderella's tights wouldn't gather at her ankle when her foot bent, so I kept trying to make sure that I didn't get those little creases on my ankle because Cinderella didn't have them.
Allison Williams -
I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.
Ian Rush -
Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.
Edmund Burke -
Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'
Colm Toibin -
I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!
Dolly Parton