Dolly Parton Quotes
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!
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And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?
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To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
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Clarice: getting cold feet There's still time!Toni: We can just call everyone and say we're terribly sorry but something came up and we have to leave town!Clarice: ...But what about the five gallons of baba ganoush, and all those tofu pups?Toni: Shit. I forgot. Well, I guess we'll just have to go through with it, then.
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I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
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Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.
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I'm loving every second working with the brilliant Kayvan Novak; it's a hoot from dawn to dusk!
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I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.
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Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
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I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.
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My father's house was on East 55th Street on 1st and 2nd Avenues. I'm fifth-generation Marino in the East 50s - I live on 57th Street. I can't be more East 50s.
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I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.
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I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.
