Dolly Parton Quotes
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Is forever longer than always?
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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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When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
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Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!.
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No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!
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[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.
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I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.
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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.
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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 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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I always wanted to be loved.
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I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.
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I will never retire unless I have to.
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I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.
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If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.
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I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through the years but I've never had the success of other artists - one hit after another back-to-back-to-back and big hits, where every song is going to be number one. I'm not greedy or nothing. I just want everything. Is there something wrong with that?
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I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.
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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
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They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
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My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.
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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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We get along real well actually [with my husband Karl Tomas Din]. We give each other space and he's not in the business and he doesn't want to be. I'm interested in his world, he's interested in mine, but we have our own things that we do together.
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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.