Dolly Parton Quotes
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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I don't know what love means.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.
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I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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I don't work with a stylist.
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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
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Letting someone down is not criminal action.
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The whole concept of salvation through belief offers strength to those who doubt themselves.
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Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
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My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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When I dreamt of being a footballer I dreamt of being a forward, but I wasn't talented enough.
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I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.
