Dolly Parton Quotes
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It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.
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I will never retire unless I have to.
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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 think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.
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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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I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.
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I always wanted to be loved.
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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 look like a woman, but I think like a man.
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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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My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
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If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.
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I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.
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They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.
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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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Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.
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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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There are some loony people in this world!
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I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.
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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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I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.
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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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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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My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.