Dolly Parton Quotes
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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've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.
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It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.
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I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!
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People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'
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I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
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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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I write for myself things that I've gone through.
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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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My grandpa was a preacher.
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Home is anywhere I hang my hair
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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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God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.
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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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God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.
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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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The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!
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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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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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A lot of people think I'm a comedian.
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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'll be wearing my high heels, even if I'm up to my knees in mud
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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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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.