Dolly Parton Quotes
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No one is ever successful at everything that they do.
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I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
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I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.
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My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
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[On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.
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Dreams are of no value if they don't have wings and feet.
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I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.
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God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.
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Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.
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I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).
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Storms make trees take deeper roots.
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Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.
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Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.
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If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.
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When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
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People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'
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Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.
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My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
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I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
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Love is like a butterfly As soft and gentle as a sigh The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings Love makes your heart feel strange inside It flutters like soft wings in flight Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.
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For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
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If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.
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I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.
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I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.