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Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.
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After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
Dolly Parton
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I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
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I wake up with new dreams every day. So the more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me. And the older I get, the earlier I get up. The second my feet hit the floor, I'm awake. I'm like hurry, hurry. I just love life. And I feel like we ain't got but a certain amount of time anyway. I want to make the most of all of it.
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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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If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?
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It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
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Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?
Dolly Parton
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I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.
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My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.
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I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.
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If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard!
Dolly Parton -
[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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I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
Dolly Parton
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I love Velveeta cheese.
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We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.
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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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I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.
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I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
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The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.
Dolly Parton
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Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
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I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble but people are going to love who they are going to love. I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. Ha ha ha!
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I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly Parton