Dolly Parton Quotes
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
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There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.
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Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...'
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You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.
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I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?
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Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
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I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.
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I know that song writing is probably the most mystical of the things that I do, in a sense that I'm not sure where it came from or how it started. It's something that I just knew how to do. It's something that just happens.
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I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.
