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" I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out. "
Dolly Parton
Always
Day
Work
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" I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another. "
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" My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation. "
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" I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say. "
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" It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do. "
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" I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different. "
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" My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen. "
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" I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy. "
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" 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. "
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" Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary. "
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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. "
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" I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back. "
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" I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100. "
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Like
" Every day I pray about all I do. "
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About
Day
" It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A. "
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Home
Perform
Always
" I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets. "
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Shoes
Short
Reach
" I will never retire unless I have to. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song. "
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" I was always a junk food person, still am. "
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Junk Food
Person
" Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself. "
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Pretty
Face
Botox
" If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad. "
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You
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" Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan. "
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Rock
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" I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva. "
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" Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out. "
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" I've enjoyed all the parts of my career. "
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Parts
" 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. "
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