Dolly Parton Quotes
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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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I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
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Everything is nothing when you got no one.
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It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.
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I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.
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I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
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People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.
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I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
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I love Velveeta cheese.
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I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.
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The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.
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Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
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Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
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I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
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We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.
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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.
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Islands in the streams, that is what we are.
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I do have a natural sense for business, which I think I get from my Dad.
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Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.
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I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.
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I embrace everybody for who and what they are.
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I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'
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You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
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Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.