Dolly Parton Quotes
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Every day I pray about all I do.
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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 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 believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.
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I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.
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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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Smile, it enhances your face value.
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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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Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.
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Everything is nothing when you got no one.
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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 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'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.
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I'll never graduate from collagen.
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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've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
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I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
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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 just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.
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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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I'm just a simple country girl.
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If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.
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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.