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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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 goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
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A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.
