Dolly Parton Quotes
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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 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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Smile, it enhances your face value.
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
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I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.
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I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.
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My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.
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All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
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I write for myself things that I've gone through.
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I just try to be true to myself and look the way that I'm comfortable looking. Because if I'm comfortable with me, then you're going to be comfortable with me as well.
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I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.
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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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You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.
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Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.
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The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
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People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.
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It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.
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I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.
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My grandpa was a preacher.
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I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
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Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.
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I have two favorite colors - white and yellow. White makes me feel light and airy. Yellow makes me happy.
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I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.