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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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" No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus! "

" I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive. "

" My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails. "

" I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant. "

" They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart. "

" 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. "

" I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road. "

" My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good. "

" I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to. "

" I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!' "

" I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own. "

" 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. "

" You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try. "

" I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself. "

" I modelled my looks on the town tramp. "

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

" Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be. "

" Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look. "

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

" I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape. "

" Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. "

" I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion. "

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

" Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. "

" Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me. "

" I've never been a feminist. "

" I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes. "