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" Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan. "
Dolly Parton
Sit
Seven
Plan
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" I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs. "
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" People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.' "
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" I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can. "
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" My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order. "
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" I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that. "
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" If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad. "
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" I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it. "
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" A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money. "
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" I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway. "
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" Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. "
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" I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet. "
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" I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me. "
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Gay
Lesbian
" It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. "
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Queen
Girl
Good
" Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself. "
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Pretty
Face
Botox
" 'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas. "
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Very
Years
" I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. "
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Business
Smart
Work
" Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.' "
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Someone
Hair
Know
" I love being active. "
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Active
Being
I Love
" I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy. "
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Thank
Lord
Did
" Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be. "
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Seem
People
Funny
" I can't do nothing just a little. "
Dolly Parton
Just
Nothing
Little
" Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart. "
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Deep
Money
" 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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God
Me
" If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition. "
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Too Much
Someone
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Sell
" Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success. "
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Life
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Everything
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