Dolly Parton Quotes
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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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The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.
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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 wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
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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.
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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 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 enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke.
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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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It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.
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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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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 have a life outside the arenas.
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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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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 believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.
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When I get down, I don't waller around for long.
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We're not all perfect. People always say to me: "Oh you seem happy all the time." But I'm not happy all the time. I'm a human being. I'm very sensitive. I hurt like anybody else. But I do try my best to have a good attitude and I set about tryin' to take care of myself knowing I'm not going to be exactly right, so I just try to see what I can do to improve every single day.
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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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All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
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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'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
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I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.