Dolly Parton Quotes

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

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• We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Thinking
  • Black
  • Opinion

• I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• I like to be supportive and a role model.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Like
  • Model
  • Role

• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Work
  • Day
  • Professional

• All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • World
  • Myself
  • Problems

• Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Country
  • Style
  • Vision

• If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Perfect

• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Paris

• Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Moments

• There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• Nature abhors a moron.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Nature

• Rules for Axioms. I. Not to omit any necessary principle without asking whether it is admittied, however clear and evident it may be. II. Not to demand, in axioms, any but things that are perfectly evident in themselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • May

• I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Country
  • America

• Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

  

  Jan Brett
  • Important
  • Children

• I look at Canada like a second home.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • Home

• I'm kind of like an open wound all the time, and that's hard. It's hard to deal with, especially in this industry. Every time I leave a movie, I feel like I'm going to die. Because you connect with these people, and then they all leave. I wish I wasn't like that, but I am.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife's job and found the inspiration for 'The Expats.'

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Job

• As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • College
  • Step

• A staple in my makeup bag is Black Opal's True Color Skin Perfecting Stick Foundation, which offers a range of colors with many undertones.

  

  Janet Mock
  • True
  • Black
  • Color

• The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

  

  Boris Vian
  • Life
  • Great
  • Moments

• People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Littles