Dolly Parton Quotes

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

Dolly Parton

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• Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Him

• My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Mind
  • Freedom
  • Change

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Want
  • Yourself
  • Scary

• This is America, not a banana republic.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • America
  • Republic
  • Banana

• There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Feeling

• I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • World
  • Always
  • Old

• I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Life
  • Work
  • Networking

• I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Time
  • Art
  • Value

• London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Diversity
  • London

• The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Science
  • Health
  • Morality

• We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Pretty
  • Say
  • Will

• The Author to the Reader I’ve read that Luther said (it’s come to me So often that I’ve made it into meter):And even if the world should end tomorrowI still would plant my little apple-tree.Here, reader, is my little apple-tree.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Tree
  • Author

• I look around at all the girl singers, and I think they're all my children... and they're all going to do this... And, yes, maybe I inspired them because I did get through a lot, and I did have the same problems that they're going to have. You do have to give up a lot for it.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Up
  • Children
  • Girl

• I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Morning
  • Listening
  • Summer

• Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • Today
  • Wish

• If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Long
  • Live

• Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Friendship
  • Gambling
  • Aspirations

• A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these people. You know the entire story arch. But on TV, you have to let your guard down. You don't know how long the show is going to last. There is this excitement that comes with developing a character long-term.

  

  DJ Qualls
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

  

  Dean Young
  • Writing
  • Willing
  • Block

• I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Song