Dolly Parton Quotes
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I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.
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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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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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A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.
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I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.
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I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.
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I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.
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I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
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There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
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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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Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
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I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.
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Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.
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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.
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I have surrounded myself with very smart people.
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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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Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.
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Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.
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My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.
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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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It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.
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Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
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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.