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.

Dolly Parton

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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.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Film
  • Television

• Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • English
  • Word
  • Text

• 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.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Age
  • Past
  • Teenager

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Positive

• 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.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Long
  • Try

• Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Only
  • Tactics

• 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.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Always
  • Painting
  • Wall

• I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • Small
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Looking
  • Walk

• 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.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• 'He’s young,' she said.'We’ve all been guilty of that sin,' said Alvin. 'And some never get over it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Guilty

• Studio heads seem to be getting the message that there is not only an audience out there, but there is a desire for people to see people of colour in central roles and in authoritative roles.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Desire

• Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It is a massive participation sport. You can do it as a challenge, for charity or whatever. I believe it will continue to grow, and I will look forward to that happening.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Believe
  • Challenge
  • Charity

• The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Music
  • Political
  • Pain

• There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Process

• Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs.

  

  Charles J. Shields
  • Serious
  • Boy
  • August

• If you can't respect me, you have to respect the law.

  

  Blac Chyna
  • Law
  • Respect

• I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Different
  • Something

• 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.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Music
  • Done
  • Addiction