Dolly Parton Quotes
Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.
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It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.
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Writing is the beast unto itself.
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I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.
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Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought
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But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely. Privacy make family fallen apart.
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For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.
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It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.
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Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.
