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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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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Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.
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I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.
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[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
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. . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom. Freedom. . .is all that makes men great. It is all men have to live for. Without freedom, what good is life?
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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What are we doing in the world that we are denying people the right to an open education? And we are denying it by making education something you have to pay for so drastically. How are people supposed to afford this?
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I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.
