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A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.
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There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.
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Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.
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If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
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Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.
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As a songwriter, you're allowed to write anything, and as a person, I am all colors in the rainbow. I've been through everything, you know, so I can write a positive song like 'Better Get to Livin'' because that's my attitude. But that doesn't mean I'm happy all the time. You can't be a deep and serious songwriter without feelings. You kinda have to live with your feelings out on your sleeve and get hurt more than most people. The fear I might get hurt means I might not be able to write another song.
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Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.
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I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.
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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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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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People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.
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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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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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You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.
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I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
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I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
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I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.
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I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite.
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I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.
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I think that I know the value of a dollar.
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I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.
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A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.
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I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.
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Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.
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