Dolly Parton Quotes
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Every day I pray about all I do.
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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.
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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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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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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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If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.
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When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.
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I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
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I'm just a simple country girl.
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Smile, it enhances your face value.
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I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.
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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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If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.
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I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.
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If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.
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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 think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
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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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I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.
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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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When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.
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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 did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.