Dolly Parton Quotes
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Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
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I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.
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My mistakes are no worse than yours.
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We get along real well actually [with my husband Karl Tomas Din]. We give each other space and he's not in the business and he doesn't want to be. I'm interested in his world, he's interested in mine, but we have our own things that we do together.
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There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].
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I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'
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I don't keep up with a lot of trends. I've never been a fashion horse. I'm so busy writing my songs, trying to maintain my business, and all the new things that come along. I stay working all the time.
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I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.
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I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through the years but I've never had the success of other artists - one hit after another back-to-back-to-back and big hits, where every song is going to be number one. I'm not greedy or nothing. I just want everything. Is there something wrong with that?
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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 learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.
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I modelled my looks on the town tramp.
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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 don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.
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Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
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I will never retire unless I have to.
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My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
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I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.
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I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.
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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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You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.
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Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
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Cheating love is just as real as un-cheating love.
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A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.