Dolly Parton Quotes
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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I have always been a movie buff and had no interest in any games and sports. I do not even watch cricket, which is one of the favourite games of most of my friends. However, I have become a wrestling fan after 'Dangal.'
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Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends.
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All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.
