Dolly Parton Quotes
Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.
Quotes to Explore
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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I can believe in myself, and I feel like I'm such a strong and talented designer.
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.
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The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.
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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
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I'm not in this game to make the most money.
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It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.
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I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in another period. I only work on one thing at once, because I'm afraid that I wouldn't finish what I'd started.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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When people want transportation, they want it now.
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Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.
