Dolly Parton Quotes
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
Quotes to Explore
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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Health food makes me sick.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
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I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
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There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
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The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
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I learned that you don't have to be saddled for life with the mental attitudes you adopted in early childhood. All of us are free to change our minds, and as we change our minds, our experiences will also change.
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The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].
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What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
