Dolly Parton Quotes
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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The first wealth is health.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen - he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.
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'He will do what we tell him.'
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.
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I see a skill developing of writing about not just feelings that I'm feeling, but things that I deeply care about as well.
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Wildflowers don't care where they grow.
