Dolly Parton Quotes
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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.
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The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
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I guess the best that I can do nowis to pretend that I've done nothing wrongand to dream about a trainthat's gonna take me back where I belong
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I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.
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I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
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Television shows, especially hour-longs, are hard, tiring work. Those people are very tired and very rich. But they're working really hard, and to create the illusion of having the time of your life like that, you really got to give it up to the people who do it.
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You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.
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The relationship of art and play: to play is art - consequently I play. I play enraged.
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It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.
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Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
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I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.
