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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We just wanted to lock down defensively. We made great defensive plays down the stretch. Inexperienced teams find a way to lose, tonight we found a way to win.
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Routine kills creative thought.
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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.
