Dolly Parton Quotes

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

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• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• 'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Fun
  • Crazy
  • Actress

• I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • People
  • Attention
  • Noticing

• Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Son
  • Write
  • Encouragement

• Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Learn
  • Show
  • Curiosity

• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Death

• I only understand realism.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Understand
  • Only
  • Realism

• This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Hills
  • Missed
  • Countryside

• When Croft's 'Life of Dr. Young' was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, 'No, no,' said he, 'it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration.'

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Strength

• I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Time
  • Happy

• There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I only listen to myself, I hate to say. I don't got time to listen to nobody else. There's a lot of guys out there, but I only listen to myself.

  

  Mark Curry
  • Time
  • Hate

• You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Hand

• People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks.'

  

  Dutch Ruppersberger
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • Moments
  • Sleep

• If people don't connect to Eric Carter's struggles, I'm sure they'll find a character in this series to connect to. That's ultimately what it's about for me.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • People
  • Character

• Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man – his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.

  

  Octave Feuillet
  • Women
  • Children
  • True

• As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him. What a great blessing to be created in his image and know of our true potential in and through him! What a great blessing to know that in his strength we can do all things!

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Children
  • Song
  • Support