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" I try not to go around looking like a hag. "

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

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" 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. "

" I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special. "

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" We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days. "

" I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready. "

" My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them. "

" Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast. "

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" 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. "

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" I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder. "

" I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?' "

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" 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. "

" God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things. "

End Of The World

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" I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another. "

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" I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day. "