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" I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song. "
Dolly Parton
I Can
Simple
Song
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" I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on. "
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" I'm a workin' girl. "
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" My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation. "
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" I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another. "
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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 modelled my looks on the town tramp. "
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" Storms make trees take deeper roots. "
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" I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it. "
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" I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out. "
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" Every day I pray about all I do. "
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" I have surrounded myself with very smart people. "
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" I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing. "
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" I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes. "
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" I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them. "
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" I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person. "
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" There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce. "
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" I'll never graduate from collagen. "
Dolly Parton
Never
Graduate
Collagen
" 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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Some People
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Start
" 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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" I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again. "
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Poor
" You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then. "
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" My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good. "
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Tied
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" There are some loony people in this world! "
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Loony
People
World
" 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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Who
Piano
People
" My fat never made me less money. "
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Me
Money
Never
" Some guys look better as they get older. "
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Look
Get
Better
" I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today. "
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Music
Today
" 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. "
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" A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty. "
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" I will never retire unless I have to. "
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