Dolly Parton Quotes
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I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.
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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 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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Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.
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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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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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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
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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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My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
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I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
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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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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 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 was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.
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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 do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.
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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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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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I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
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There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
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I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
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You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.
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I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.
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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.