Dolly Parton Quotes
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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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I always think of myself as a working girl.
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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'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
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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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With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.
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Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.
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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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All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
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The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.
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Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
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When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.
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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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When I get down, I don't waller around for long.
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You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.
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I have a life outside the arenas.
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Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
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I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.
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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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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.
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We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.
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Everything is nothing when you got no one.
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I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.
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Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.