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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I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar.
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Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough. When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.
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I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.
