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.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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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.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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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.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.
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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.
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I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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I am always concerned with finding the right spot and the right shot, so sometimes I forget to appreciate the skill of my fellow adventurers, but I am aware of how my life has been changed by my ability with a camera.
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When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called 'Nothing To Envy.' And I was very proud. In school, we spent a lot of time studying the history of Kim Il-Sung, but we never learned much about the outside world, except that America, South Korea, Japan are the enemies.
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There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the main character in "Carrie" has been brought down by Carrie and his - he - dress is disheveled and all that sort of thing. And that's the last I ever saw of Will Shawn.
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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.
