Dolly Parton Quotes
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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Women drive box office.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.
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My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.
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I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.
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The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
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My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it's our life. It's what we do naturally whether we're working together or not.
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I do have a natural sense for business, which I think I get from my Dad.
