Dolly Parton Quotes
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We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
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If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.
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A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.
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Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
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If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.
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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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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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No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by
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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 know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
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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've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.
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I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.
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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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The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
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I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I'm still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can.
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I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.
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I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.
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I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.
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I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
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I bought all those fitness videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.
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Everybody has a purpose.
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Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
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I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.