Dolly Parton Quotes
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Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.
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I have surrounded myself with very smart people.
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I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.
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I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.
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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 had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
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I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.
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Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.
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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 believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.
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People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.
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I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.
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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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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 don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.
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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 did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
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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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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 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!
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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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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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I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.