Dolly Parton Quotes
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
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There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.
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I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.
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I never liked my last name or my first name, but it's not as bad as Frigidaire, so it's fine.
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I don't know a lot of people who achieve what they have really dreamed of as a little girl.
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Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.
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[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.
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I'm at work by 8 or 8:30, and when I get home every night, my wife and I walk around the lawn. We have dinner together, and then we spend most of our evenings alone.
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It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.
