Dolly Parton Quotes
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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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I still keep my accent.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.
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At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
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The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die.' He winks. 'But not without one hell of a fight.'
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You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
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I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.
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I'm thankful to be in a position in my career where I can advocate for better policies and partner with future generations, like my daughters, to be a voice for change.
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When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.
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My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
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We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
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With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.
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The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!
