Dolly Parton Quotes

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

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Any relationship is like a house with an upstairs: it's got two stories.

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Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.

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If I see something sagging, dragging or bagging, I'm going to have the stuff tucked or plucked.

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I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

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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.

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

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Well, we've all got a cheatin' heart, it just depends on how we deal with it. Are you trying to put me in a corner? I said I was married; I didn't say I was dead!

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I always knew I was somebody. I dreamed big dreams and I got out early.

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I thought it was a good time to write an album of just love songs. Most of them are positive. There's a couple of cheatin' type things, but you know, that's a type of love, too. If you're in love, you're in love. It doesn't matter. Love is love is love is love. Your heart can't help what it does.

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I'm not offended at all, because I know I'm not a dumb blonde. I also know I'm not blonde.

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I don't look this way out of ignorance. If people think that I do, they're dumber than I am.

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That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else.

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It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

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I have a huge gay following, and I'm proud of them. Sometimes some of them look more like me than I do.

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If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.

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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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I can't think unless I've got a pen or a pencil in my hand, with a big old yellow legal pad.

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

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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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I do wear wigs.... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind — and me too proud to run after it.

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When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

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When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.

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It takes a lot of time and money to look this cheap, honey.

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