Dolly Parton Quotes

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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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Hillary might make as good a president as anybody ever has. I think no matter if it's Hillary or Donald Trump, we're gonna be plagued with PMS either way — presidential mood swings!

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If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.

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I never had a doubt I would make it, because refusing to think I couldn't make it is the reason I could.

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You have no idea how much it costs to make a person look this cheap.

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

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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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I describe my look as a blend of Mother Goose, Cinderella, and the local hooker.

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

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Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abundance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

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They didn't understand it and I tried to make them see
That one is only poor only if they choose to be
Now I know we had no money but I was rich as I could be
In my coat of many colors that Momma made for me.

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If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.

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

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

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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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When they say less is more, I say 'That's a crock!' More is more, and I want more. I've always wanted more.

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

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I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.

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

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I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.

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

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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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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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