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" I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off. "

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" 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. "

Dolly Parton

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" I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life. "

" I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.' "

" I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked. "

" I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes. "

Dolly Parton

Easy

Lots And Lots

" A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs. "

" I just don't feel like I have to explain myself. "

" I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. "

" People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.' "

" I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural. "

" I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well. "

" My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things. "

" I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is. "

" 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. "

" Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee. "

" For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood. "

" I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing. "

" People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems. "

" My husband says I look like a Q-tip. "

Dolly Parton

Husband

Look

" I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things. "

" 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. "

Dolly Parton

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God

" 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. "

Dolly Parton

Birth

Away

" I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!' "

" 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?' "

Dolly Parton

Money

Play

" Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate. "

" 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. "

" Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means. "

Dolly Parton

You

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" My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them. "

" If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul. "

" Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good. "