Dolly Parton Quotes
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Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.
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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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I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.
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I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
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When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.
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I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.
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I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.
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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 modelled my looks on the town tramp.
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Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
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I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.
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I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better.
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Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.
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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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Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
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Everything is nothing when you got no one.
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I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
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Every day I pray about all I do.
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I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.
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I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.
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I embrace everybody for who and what they are.
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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 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.