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" The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. "
Dolly Parton
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" 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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" I think everyone should be with who they love. "
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" I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area. "
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" 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! "
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" I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion. "
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" I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time. "
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" 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. "
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" My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails. "
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" Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort. "
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" My life has been very full. "
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" After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her. "
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" I didn't know any gay people in my childhood. "
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" I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches. "
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" All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano. "
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" I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was! "
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" Never leave a rhinestone unturned. "
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" Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.' "
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" If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. "
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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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