Dolly Parton Quotes
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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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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
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I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.
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All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
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I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep.
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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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I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.
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People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'
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Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.
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I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.
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I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.
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In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.
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Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.
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My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.
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I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
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There are some loony people in this world!
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People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.
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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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I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.
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My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
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I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'
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[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.
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Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just your mind and they never give you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!
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I always wanted to be loved.