Dolly Parton Quotes
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People get a kick out of my stupidity.
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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 am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.
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God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.
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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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Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.
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I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.
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When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
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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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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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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 write for myself things that I've gone through.
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We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.
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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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So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.
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I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
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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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My grandpa was a preacher.
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You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.
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I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.
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If there's a heaven, I hope to hell I go!
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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 anything to say about other people's art and their work.
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I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.