Dolly Parton Quotes
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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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!
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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.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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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.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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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.
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People want you to fail.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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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.
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κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἰσάπαξ θανεῖνἢ τὰς ἁπάσας ἡμέρας πάσχειν κακῶς.
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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.'
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.
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I developed 'Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied' while I was an Artist in Residence at Kalamazoo College.
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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.
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I'm really into color. I love polka dots, rainbows, any pattern.
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Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
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I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.
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I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.
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I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!
