Dolly Parton Quotes
People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
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I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
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My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
