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Dolly Parton Quotes

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Country Driven Stuff Songs Most

If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated.

Sibling You Harmony Listen Never

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Looking Unexpected Never Things Seen

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.

Mercedes McCambridge

Life Blue Black House I Can Buy

Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.

Nothing More Taxes Carbon Than

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

Miranda Lambert

Relationship People Someone You Back

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Joyce Carol Oates

Universe Physics Nothing Pure Laws

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

Experience Better You Back Place Go

I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons.

Done Lead Got Because Sell Reasons

Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to be performed for some useful end - the suffering to be comforted, the wandering led home, the sinner reclaimed. Oh! How can any fold the hands to rest and say to the spirit, 'Take thine ease, for all is well!'

Life Work Home Day Suffering Rest

I lift weights in the offseason about four times a week; during the season, I'll lift three times a week. The weight training is key because most guys come in during the summertime as strong as they are going to get, and they fizzle down as the year starts.

Training Strong Key Week Year Down

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Richard M. Nixon

Never Give Up Wisdom Sun You Down

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power.

Power History Political Rise Rome

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