Dolly Parton Quotes
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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
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When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to find when you're looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don't care who you are! I know we're all pieces of the same thing - I go for that common light because I know it's in all of us.
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I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
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It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.
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I was always a junk food person, still am.
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I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!
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Islands in the streams, that is what we are.
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Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.
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I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.
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My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
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I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.
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That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.
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You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.
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We're not all perfect. People always say to me: "Oh you seem happy all the time." But I'm not happy all the time. I'm a human being. I'm very sensitive. I hurt like anybody else. But I do try my best to have a good attitude and I set about tryin' to take care of myself knowing I'm not going to be exactly right, so I just try to see what I can do to improve every single day.
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I'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed.
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People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.
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Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.
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My fat never made me less money.
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I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
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People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.
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It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
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I do wear wigs. ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.
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I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.
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If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.