Dolly Parton Quotes
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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
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I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
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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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People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.
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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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When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.
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Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.
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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 write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.
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I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.
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God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.
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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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I embrace everybody for who and what they are.
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I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
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I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!
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I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
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I'll never graduate from collagen.
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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 do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.
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I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.
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If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.
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Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. But we are idols and we're all gods, so to speak, and I think that celebrities should acknowledge their responsibility, because we are in a position to help.