Dolly Parton Quotes
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I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.
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If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?
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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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If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.
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I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.
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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 love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.
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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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Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.
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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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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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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 love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.
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I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.
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Everybody has a purpose.
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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 come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.
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If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.
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Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.
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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.
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Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
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I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.
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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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My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.