Dolly Parton Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.
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Every time you get something, give something away.
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I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real.
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It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.
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Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.
