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" I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. "
Dolly Parton
Look
You
Live
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" Everybody has a purpose. "
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Everybody
Purpose
" 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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Red
Children
Rainbow
" 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. "
Dolly Parton
Myself
People
Seriously
" 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. "
Dolly Parton
People
Run
Same
" I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down. "
Dolly Parton
Successful
Believe
Business
" 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. "
Dolly Parton
People
Great
Good
" Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters. "
Dolly Parton
Stories
Country
Driven
" I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready. "
Dolly Parton
Ready
You
Tell
" No, I can't do rap music! "
Dolly Parton
Rap Music
Rap
Music
" For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood. "
Dolly Parton
Women
Work
Good
" Sevier County is a great area. "
Dolly Parton
Great
Area
County
" I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?' "
Dolly Parton
Radio
Listen
How
" Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan. "
Dolly Parton
Sit
Seven
Plan
" A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them. "
Dolly Parton
Lot
Turn
Nightmares
" 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! "
Dolly Parton
Mountain
Love
Laugh
" A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs. "
Dolly Parton
People
Lot
Load
" I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree. "
Dolly Parton
Person
I Am
Feel
" I try not to go around looking like a hag. "
Dolly Parton
Try
Looking
Like
" I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else. "
Dolly Parton
Myself
People
Accept
" I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time. "
Dolly Parton
Magic
Real
Same
" Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. "
Dolly Parton
Time
Success
Passage
" 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. "
Dolly Parton
Me
Great
Business
" 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. "
Dolly Parton
People
Way
Her
" I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again. "
Dolly Parton
Rich
Sing
Poor
" No one is ever successful at everything that they do. "
Dolly Parton
Ever
Everything
Successful
" 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. "
Dolly Parton
Business
Smart
Work
" George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world. "
Dolly Parton
People
World
Favorite People
" I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes. "
Dolly Parton
Easy
Like
Lots And Lots
" 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. "
Dolly Parton
Sitting
Want
Wind
" I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that. "
Dolly Parton
Best
Myself
Technology