Dolly Parton Quotes
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I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.
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I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
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I don't know that I'm beautiful or glamorous. I'm a pretty artificial looking person. I sure am flattered when people think I'm beautiful, but I think I'm leaning towards more cartoonish than beautiful. But I'm comfortable with who I am. And since I wasn't born as a natural beauty, I just make the most of what I've got.
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Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.
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'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.
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People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
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George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.
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I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.
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I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.
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Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.
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A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.
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I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.
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I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.
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I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.
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I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.
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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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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
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I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.
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If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked.
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My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.
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I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.
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You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.
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You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.
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I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.