Dolly Parton Quotes
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There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
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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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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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I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
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...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
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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!
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I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.
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Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
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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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I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
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I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.
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I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.
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I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.
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The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.
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The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.
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Wildflowers don't care where they grow.
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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'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
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Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'
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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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We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.
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I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
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I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.
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I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!