Dolly Parton Quotes
Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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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 think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
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The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.
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I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.
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My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
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I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. You're aware that if you're nicking all the budget, somebody else is getting threepence ha'penny, or the production values aren't going to be so high.
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I was born outside Kennedy Space Center.
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When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful, possibly terrible mistake. That comes from thinking of yourself as a writer.
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I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.
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Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
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I really don't find revivals very interesting because I like new work a lot. I feel like if you're going to pay me, then let me do what I do and let me try to solve some problems. Let me try to make something fly. Why would I do something that everybody has already done the hard work on? But that's me. Tons of people do revivals really well.
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Jefferson was not ashamed to call the black man his brother and to address him as a gentleman.
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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and de-limited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules, and games we call Civilisation … the rules and the games are often absurd and farcical - sometimes they are tragic - yet we tacitly acknowledge that they are necessary.
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
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I look at [Toronto] and think well, perhaps my grandchildren will someday look at this stuff with the sort of appreciation I once held for Art Deco. Although I've come to find Art Deco quite creepy too.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.
