Dolly Parton Quotes & Sayings

#1. I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair

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#2. I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

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#3. My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

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#4. I'll never graduate from collagen.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

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#8. I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

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#9. My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

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#10. 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.

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#11. I love Velveeta cheese.

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#12. I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.

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#13. That little Miley Cyrus ... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old!

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#14. I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

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

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

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#17. You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

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#18. I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

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#19. I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.

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#20. I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

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#21. I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it.

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#22. I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

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#23. People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.

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#24. I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

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#25. 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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#26. I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

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#27. Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

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#28. I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

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#29. 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.

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#30. George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

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#31. They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.

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#32. I'm not sixty, I'm sexty.

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#33. 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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#34. I've ... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

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#35. I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.

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#36. If I see something saggin', baggin', or draggin', I'm gone have it nipped, tucked, or sucked!

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#37. I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

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

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#39. I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little.

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#40. I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

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#41. I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

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#42. I'll be wearing my high heels, even if I'm up to my knees in mud

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#43. A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.

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#44. I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

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#45. People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

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#46. People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

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#47. I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).

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#48. I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

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#49. My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

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#50. If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

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#51. I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

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#52. They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

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#53. Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

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#54. If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.

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#55. I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

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#56. No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

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#57. Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when 'Jolene' was a big hit.

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#58. You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

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#59. My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

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#60. '9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.

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#61. If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep.

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#62. 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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#63. My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

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#64. We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

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#65. There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

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#66. Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by ...

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#67. I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts ...

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#68. I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

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#69. I love story songs because I've always loved books.

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#70. Paradise is a state of mind.

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#71. I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.

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#72. When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.

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#73. I'm a workin' girl.

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#74. I will never retire unless I have to.

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#75. I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

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#76. 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.

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#77. Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

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#78. 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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#79. Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It's a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature.

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#80. 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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#81. A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

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#82. A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

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#83. A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.

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#84. 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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#85. Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

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#86. I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

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#87. I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked.

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#88. I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.

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#89. I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.

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#90. I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.

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#91. I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals,

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#92. The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

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

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#94. When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

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#95. I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.

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