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.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Business
  • Our
  • Smallest

• 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.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Friend
  • Wife
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Black

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Face

• 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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Intellectuals
  • Condescending
  • Demeanour

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Place
  • Mirror
  • Half

• I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Always
  • Fan
  • Been

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Important
  • Mirror
  • Tool

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Trust

• There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Change
  • Try
  • Obstacles

• 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.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Actor

• 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.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Father
  • Stage

• The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Change
  • Kind
  • Survive

• Writing is the beast unto itself.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Writing
  • Beast
  • Unto

• 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.

  

  Jane Gardam

• The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Giving

• As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Die
  • Worry
  • Born

• I was born by the river in a little tent. And just like the river, I've been running ever since. It's been a long, long time coming but I know a change is gonna come. Oh, yes it is.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Time
  • Change
  • Born

• When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Film
  • Reader
  • Doctors

• I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

  

  Julia Child
  • Fear
  • Food
  • Doctors

• 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.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Born
  • Faces
  • Doctors