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" God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons. "
Dolly Parton
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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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" I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song. "
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" All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano. "
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" I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens. "
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" My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old. "
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" When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry. "
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" There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too. "
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" I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out. "
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" I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way. "
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" My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff. "
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" I've enjoyed all the parts of my career. "
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" I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree. "
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" Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan. "
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" I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?' "
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" I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am. "
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" 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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" Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume. "
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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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" I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say. "
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" Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan. "
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" I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family. "
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" '9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another. "
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" Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort. "
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" I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi. "
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" 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. "
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