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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. "
Dolly Parton
Lipstick
Used
Until
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" I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it. "
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" I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion. "
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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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" I love being active. "
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" I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs. "
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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 love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like. "
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" Everybody has a purpose. "
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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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" Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good. "
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" I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person. "
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Like
" I love story songs because I've always loved books. "
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" If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. "
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" I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair. "
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" I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids. "
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School
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" 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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Nobody
Sick
Kid
" My husband says I look like a Q-tip. "
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Like
Husband
Look
" I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes. "
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Commercial
Trying
Sometimes
" I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse. "
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Time
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" I was always a junk food person, still am. "
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Person
" I think that I know the value of a dollar. "
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Know
" I think that I'm perfect. "
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Perfect
Think
I Think
" I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else. "
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Myself
People
Accept
" I'm just a simple country girl. "
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Country
Girl
Simple
" 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. "
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Work
Expect
Me
" A lot of people think I'm a comedian. "
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Think
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" I have little bones. "
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" When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try. "
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