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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'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense.
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I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?
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Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.
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I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
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I like my cheese, I like my milk in my coffee, and nobody's gonna tell me any different.
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I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that.
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You can't really make people be any different than what they are.
