Dolly Parton Quotes
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You're no Elvis Presley, I'm no Marilyn Monroe, but I do think you're sexy, just thought I'd tell you so.
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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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I write for myself things that I've gone through.
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
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Smile, it enhances your face value.
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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'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.
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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 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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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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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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I have two favorite colors - white and yellow. White makes me feel light and airy. Yellow makes me happy.
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All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
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I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.
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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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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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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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I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
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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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I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.
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The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
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I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.
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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.