Dolly Parton Quotes
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I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite.
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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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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'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.
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I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.
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I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better.
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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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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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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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My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.
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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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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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Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
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Everybody has a purpose.
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A baby, a real live baby was the craziest thing a fan has sent. Someone left a baby on our front doorstep with a note that they wanted us to raise it. Of course, we contacted the authorities and they took care of the baby.
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I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.
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My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
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Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
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I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
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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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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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I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.
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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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I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!