Dolly Parton Quotes
A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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It's not very often that I like new bands.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
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I'm not one of those Hollywood moms where my kid is three weeks old and I'm a size zero. I'm a real woman and I'm a working woman and a working mom.
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I'm a young dude from Chicago who grew up with Kanye as my image of hip-hop. Finding your voice in a room where you have to challenge Kanye is scary - but it's also life-affirming.
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'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.
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I sympathize with every kitchen porter.
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Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.
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'Love Will Keep Us Together' was a combination of three different singing styles - Al Green, the Beach Boys, and Diana Ross. I loved all these people, and I put their singing styles together and wrote that tune.
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An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
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And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.
