Dolly Parton Quotes
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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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When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to find when you're looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don't care who you are! I know we're all pieces of the same thing - I go for that common light because I know it's in all of us.
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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 figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.
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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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the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball
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I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.
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Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.
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Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
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I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
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People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.
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I'm just a simple country girl.
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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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Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
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Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.
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I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I'll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.
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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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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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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 can't do nothing just a little.