Dolly Parton Quotes
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My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.
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I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.
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I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.
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I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.
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I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.
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If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.
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Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.
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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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A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.
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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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You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.
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I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
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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 think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.
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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 don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.
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I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
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All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.
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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'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!
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Smile, it enhances your face value.
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I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.
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I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.
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I write for myself things that I've gone through.