Dolly Parton Quotes
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
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Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.
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I am a normal guy.
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I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
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I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.
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As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.
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I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.
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I've wanted to be Mick Jagger since I was 18. One of the things I love about music is that you don't have to be dependent on other people like you are in the film business. I hate being dependent on anyone. With my music, I can do whatever I want. I also think it's made me more relaxed as an actress.
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I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.
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Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.
