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" After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her. "

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" People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.' "

" I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse. "

" People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves. "

" We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. "

" I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day. "

" You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then. "

" My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time. "

" I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me. "

" I've never been a feminist. "

" I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was! "

" Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red. "

" I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it. "

" I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy. "

" I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can. "

" When I get down, I don't waller around for long. "

" My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school. "

" Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. "

" I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith. "

" People get a kick out of my stupidity. "

" I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets. "

" 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. "

" I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva. "

" The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone. "

" My fat never made me less money. "

" A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them. "

" I always think of myself as a working girl. "

" Find out who you are. And do it on purpose. "