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" Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away. "

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" I write for myself things that I've gone through. "

" My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time. "

" You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap! "

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

" Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan. "

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

" You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished. "

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" I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet. "

" 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. "

" Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. "

" 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. "

" If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn. "

" '9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us. "

" Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent. "

" I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song. "

" 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 can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song. "

" I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens. "

" I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys. "

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" I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life. "

" People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "