Dolly Parton Quotes
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I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.
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I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.
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I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.
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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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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 just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
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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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I always think of myself as a working girl.
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I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
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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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A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.
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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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Many of my friends are gay, male and female. I don't judge people. I don't care what people do in their bedrooms and people shouldn't care what I do in mine.
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I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.
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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.
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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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You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.
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When I get down, I don't waller around for long.
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It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.
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Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.
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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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Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.
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I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.