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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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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 am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.
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Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.
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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.
