Dolly Parton Quotes

I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.

Dolly Parton

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• I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Strong
  • Actor
  • Director

• I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Good
  • Successful

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

  

  Pat Tiberi
  • Job
  • Support
  • Plan

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Girl
  • Horse
  • Kiss

• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Game

• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Good
  • Long
  • Learn

• We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • World
  • Good
  • True

• I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Important
  • Want

• 'Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President of the United States and his highest legal advisers, torture is okay, they said. Go for it, fellas. If we can't renounce that and remove it from office, then the Constitution doesn't work anymore.'

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • People
  • Work
  • Innocent

• I was at the Cross With Mary Magdalene. I received the muse From Ceridwen's cauldron.

  

  Taliesin

• of a character in 'The Man Who Gave Up Smoking' who is suffering from a hangover ... the noise of the cat stamping about in the passage outside caused him exquisite discomfort.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Character
  • Suffering

• I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Good
  • Movie

• One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

  

  Ken Adam
  • Trying
  • Reality

• I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.

  

  Donald Norman
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Technology

• I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• It was as if all the scenes of my life were running through my brain like a pack of dogs running through the streets, dogs running and running, unable to stop even though they were tired.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Running
  • Brain
  • Tired

• The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.

  

  George Sarton
  • World
  • Heart
  • Past

• To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

  

  Peter Stormare
  • Life
  • Important

• There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good.

  

  Scotty Moore
  • Real
  • Book
  • Looks

• I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Real
  • Personality
  • Fit