Dolly Parton Quotes
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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 prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.
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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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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
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Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.
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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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I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.
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I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'
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I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.
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I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.
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I modelled my looks on the town tramp.
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I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.
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I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.
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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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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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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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It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.
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I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
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I embrace everybody for who and what they are.
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I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I'm still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can.
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I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
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When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.
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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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Years ago when I first started being a big star I had fans that were fanatical. It was when "Jolene" was a big hit.