Dolly Parton Quotes
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I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.
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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 was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.
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When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
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People will use you as long as you let them.
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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 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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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.
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I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.
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When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.
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One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.
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I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.
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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.
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I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.
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I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.
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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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I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.
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I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.
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Is forever longer than always?
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A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.
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My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
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My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.
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If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?