Dolly Parton Quotes
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I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.
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The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
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A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.
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I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.
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There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.
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I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.
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It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.
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Poor little Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan... If those little girls slept with as many men as they say in the tabloids, why their little butts would have more fingerprints than the FBI! I kinda feel sorry for them. We should give those two a break.
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I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
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Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.
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Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.
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Leave something good in every day.
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Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.
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Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
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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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I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.
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People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.
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I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
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Everything is nothing when you got no one.
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People don't realize that, you know, we have - "we" meaning people in show business have the same problems as everybody else. Money don't change that. Fame don't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a - different kind of problems. As they say, money ain't everything.
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'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.
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My fat never made me less money.
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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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I always think of myself as a working girl.