Dolly Parton Quotes
George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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The Oculus Studio stuff is going to remain exclusive to the Oculus store and platform. That's not to say that you'll never be able to play it on other hardware, but it very much is exclusive to the Oculus platform.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over.
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'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities...And we can find new joy in the ordinary.
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People aren't doing whodunits anymore.
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George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.
