Dolly Parton Quotes
A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.
Quotes to Explore
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
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From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.
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Jesus Christ will appear with me on the platform...
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The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.
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I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
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I'm kind of ready for anything. I don't really get nervous, and I'm not the type of person who gets worried about a game. I just play the game, and I enjoy it.
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I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.
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When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.
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We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.
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She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.
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There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger.
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A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.
