Dolly Parton Quotes
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must.
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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.
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We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
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As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
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My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.
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Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
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I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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'There is no God,' the wicked saith,'And truly it’s a blessing,For what He might have done with usIt’s better only guessing.'
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
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Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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Only the poor can create art.
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It's not a problem if 20,000 people heard my music for free, but it's a huge problem if 20,000 people never heard my music.
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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
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We The Replacements never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.
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I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
