Dolly Parton Quotes
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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've copyrighted 3,000 songs.
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I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I'll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.
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Everybody has a purpose.
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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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If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?
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I can't do nothing just a little.
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Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.
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People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.
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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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My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.
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I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.
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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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You can't really make people be any different than what they are.
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A baby, a real live baby was the craziest thing a fan has sent. Someone left a baby on our front doorstep with a note that they wanted us to raise it. Of course, we contacted the authorities and they took care of the baby.
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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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My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
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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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Is forever longer than always?
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I know when something ain't right, and I know exactly what I will or won't tolerate.
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You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.
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I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.
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I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.
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I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.