Dolly Parton Quotes

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

Dolly Parton

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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

FKA twigs
- Up
- School
- Pretty
A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Time
- Long
- Today
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

Hannah Kent
- Story
- Student
- Iceland
Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

Carine Roitfeld
- Good
- Think
- Mom
One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

Garth Risk Hallberg
- Nature
- Language
- Same
I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

Imelda May
- Pretty
- Me
- Church