Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame. "
Dolly Parton
Think
Doubt
Fear
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Dolly Parton
Any
Older
People
" Sevier County is a great area. "
Dolly Parton
Great
Area
County
" My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things. "
Dolly Parton
Things
Simple
Common
" I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home. "
Dolly Parton
Nothing
Home
World
" I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me. "
Dolly Parton
Perceive
How
Intimidated
" My grandpa was a preacher. "
Dolly Parton
Preacher
Grandpa
" I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing. "
Dolly Parton
Feel Good
Good
Doing
" I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.' "
Dolly Parton
Been
Me
Places
" I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. "
Dolly Parton
Dumb
Blonde
Know
" As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them! "
Dolly Parton
Wish
Respect
People
" My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff. "
Dolly Parton
Stuff
Rhyme
Always
" I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it. "
Dolly Parton
Someone
Tell
Old
" I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song. "
Dolly Parton
Stand
Time
Listen
" All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right. "
Dolly Parton
Brothers
Talented
Very
" 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. "
Dolly Parton
Cooking
Home
Love
" Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan. "
Dolly Parton
Music
Rock
Big
" I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree. "
Dolly Parton
Person
I Am
Feel
" I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back. "
Dolly Parton
Energy
Back
Vampire
" 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. "
Dolly Parton
Long
Good
People
" When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!' "
Dolly Parton
God
Wig
Thought
" I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs. "
Dolly Parton
Two
Old
Like
" If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. "
Dolly Parton
You
Words
Saying
" I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person. "
Dolly Parton
Kind
Person
Like
" 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
" There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too. "
Dolly Parton
Always
Him
Me
" I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them. "
Dolly Parton
Uncles
Men
Father
" I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family. "
Dolly Parton
Family
Person
Just
" Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan. "
Dolly Parton
Sit
Seven
Plan
" When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know. "
Dolly Parton
Know
Always
Being
" I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community. "
Dolly Parton
Community
Family
Think