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Dolly Parton Quotes

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 19, 1946

Topics

Family Child Lost Kind Little Come

I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.

Melissa Etheridge

People Me Sick Clothes You Stage

When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.

Life Attitude Courage People Writing

I'm not an unkind person, but by the same token, I'm not a people-pleaser.

Person Same Token Unkind

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Myself Me Pressure Manager Need Put

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

I Am Me Universe Hand Same Cultures

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

Myself Think Room Actress Still Mum

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

Plants Animals Africa Tropical West

On the night before a triathlon, I normally eat something simple like a pizza. You know where you stand with pizza. It's not going to upset you or give you food poisoning, and it contains carbohydrates and a bit of salt, which is perfect before a triathlon.

Jonathan Brownlee

Food Simple Pizza Night Stand You

I did make a lot of my own clothes. I used to love to sew, so I made my own shirts and bell bottoms and modified my own clothes, which is what we did during the punk period.

Love Clothes My Own Bell Punk Own

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

Chris Van Hollen

Matter President Ask Republican Pay

Fittings are boring, but it's fun when you get to wear something new and go to a new event. I have a massive say in what I wear - I work really closely with my stylist.

Work Fun You Go New Boring

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

Anthony Hopkins

Fight Think Know Admire Actor Being

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