Dolly Parton Quotes
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I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says "Hi, Aunt Dolly." Or "Are you Aunt Dolly?" I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother.
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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'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
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I modelled my looks on the town tramp.
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I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.
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Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.
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There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
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Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
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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 really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.
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I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.
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We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
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I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.
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My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
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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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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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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 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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God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.
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Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.
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I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.
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I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.
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I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
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Many of my friends are gay, male and female. I don't judge people. I don't care what people do in their bedrooms and people shouldn't care what I do in mine.