Dolly Parton Quotes

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

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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.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
  • Perceived

• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • School
  • Kids
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • Look
  • Successful

• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Education
  • Value
  • California

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Public
  • Performing
  • Started

• People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • People
  • Fun
  • Act

• Jesus Christ will appear with me on the platform...

  

  Benny Hinn
  • Jesus

• 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.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Society
  • Law

• 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.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• 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.

  

  Ben Simmons
  • Game

• I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Grief
  • Frustration

• 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.

  

  Adelina Sotnikova
  • Good
  • Character
  • Mother

• Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Music
  • Art

• I always turn to Wendy Williams when there's any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Country
  • Moral

• Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

  

  Edward Hoagland
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case...

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Reasons
  • Case
  • Merits

• When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Movie
  • Singing
  • Goal

• Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say - Someday, I will.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Someday

• There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Inspired
  • Sweet
  • Girls

• So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical activity that gets me out of my head and into my body. I'm constantly inspired by my surroundings and people I see that are "killing it."

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Song
  • Inspired