Dolly Parton Quotes
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There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].
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Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?
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Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.
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My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.
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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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I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
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Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.
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I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.
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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.
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I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.
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I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.
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If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.
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My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.
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You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.
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I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair
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I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
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I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.
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Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
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I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
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There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
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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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If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
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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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My husband said 'show me your boobs' and I had to pull up my skirt... so it was time to get them done!