Dolly Parton Quotes
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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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Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.
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I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
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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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You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.
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Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.
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I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.
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You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else.
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Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
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Smile, it enhances your face value.
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I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.
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You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.
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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 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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Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.
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I can't do nothing just a little.
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My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.
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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 not trying to be fashionable. Never was!
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Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
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I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
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I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.
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Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.
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I may look fake but I'm real where it counts.