Dolly Parton Quotes
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.
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I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.
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The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer... if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?
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I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.
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People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.
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You can't really make people be any different than what they are.
