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" There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too. "
Dolly Parton
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" Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time. "
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" I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet. "
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" 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. "
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" Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume. "
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" A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money. "
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" I always think of myself as a working girl. "
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" I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well. "
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" I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100. "
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" My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. "
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" I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then. "
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" I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. "
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" People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems. "
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" I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was. "
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" I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?' "
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" I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was! "
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" For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood. "
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" '9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another. "
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" People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.' "
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" I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do. "
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