Dolly Parton Quotes
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
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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 am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.
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When I get down, I don't waller around for long.
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It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.
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I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.
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I was always a junk food person, still am.
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Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.
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I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.
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There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.
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The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.
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Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
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My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.
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I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.
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...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
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Every day I pray about all I do.
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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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I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
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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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I try not to go around looking like a hag.
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Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.
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I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
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I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.
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Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.