Dolly Parton Quotes
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
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If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.
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It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
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Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.
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It sounds funny to say it, but when I was getting ready to try out, I was thinking that I really wasn't going to have to work that hard to be what I needed to be - flirtatious, outgoing, crazy and fun.
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I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.
