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" When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. "

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" God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons. "

" Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan. "

" When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris. "

" 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. "

" Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast. "

" 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. "

" I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet. "

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

" 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. "

" Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park. "

" No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus! "

" I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it. "

" I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them. "

" I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself. "

" You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own. "

" I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child. "

" I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out. "

" There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too. "

" God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people. "

" First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes. "

" I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it. "

" I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me. "

" It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do. "

" 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. "